toise

See also: toisé

English

Etymology

From French toise.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔɪz/

Noun

toise (plural toises)

  1. a former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres
    • 1997: the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /twaz/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

toise f (plural toises)

  1. toise
  2. height gauge

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

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

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Further reading

Irish

Noun

toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)

  1. size, measure, measurement
  2. dimension

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
toise thoise dtoise
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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