Etymology

fissilingual

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Today it means: Having a forked tongue. Full definition →

Latin fissus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfissus
  2. English todayfissilingual

From Latin fissus (p.p. of findere (“to split”)) + lingual.

Words from the same roots

Latinfissus all →

fissi-fissipedal

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.