The story
- Latin · derived fromfindere“to cleave, split”
- Latin · derived fromfissus“cleft”
- English todayfissi-
Combining form of Latin fissus (“cleft”), past participle of Latin findere (“to cleave, split”).
Words from the same roots
Latinfissus all →
fissilingualfissipedal
Latinfindere all →
fentpedatifid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.