toise

From French toise.

• IPA^(key): /tɔɪz/

toise (plural toises)

1. (historical) A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

     […] the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely […]

• ETSOI, OSETI, osite

• IPA^(key): /twaz/

From Old French teise (cognate with Italian tesa), from Latin tēnsa (bracchia) (“outstretched (arms)”), from tendō (“stretch”).

toise f (plural toises)

1. toise
2. height gauge

• toiser

See the etymology of the main entry.

toise

1. first-person singular present indicative of toiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of toiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of toiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of toiser
5. second-person singular imperative of toiser

• ostie

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

• tois

toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)

1. Alternative form of tomhas (“measure, gauge; guess, riddle”)
2. size, measure, measurement
3. dimension

• aontoiseach (“one-dimensional”, adjective)

• "toise" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “toise” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “toise” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.