cisailles

From Old French cisaille(s), from a Vulgar Latin *cisac(u)la, from *caesacula, from the neuter plural of a *caesaculum, formed from the root of Latin caesus, from caedō (“cut”). Cf. also the related ciseau.

• Homophones: cisaille, cisaillent

cisailles f pl (plural only)

1. shears, clippers

• Catalan: cisalla
• Spanish: cizalla

• cisailler

• ciseau

cisailles

1. second-person singular present indicative of cisailler
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of cisailler

• “cisailles” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).