The story
- Latin · derived fromcaedere“to cut”
- Old French · derived fromcisoires
- Middle English · inherited fromcysour
- English todayscissor
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
Words from the same roots
Latincaedere all →
septicidal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.