Etymology

toesa

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Today it means: Synonym of estado, Spanish toise or fathom, a traditional unit of length, equivalent to about 1.67 m. Full definition →

Portuguese toesa ← French toise
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The story

  1. French · derived fromtoise
  2. Portuguese · borrowed fromtoesa
  3. English todaytoesa

From Spanish and Portuguese toesa, from French toise. Doublet of toise.

Words from the same roots

Frenchtoise all →

toise

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.