tissue
English
/ˈtɪsjuː/, /ˈtɪʃu/
noun
Definitions
- Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
- A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
- A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
- Absorbent paper as material.
- (biology) A group of cells similar in origin that function together to do a specific job.
- Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
Etymology
Derived from Old French tissu derived from Latin texere.
Origin
Latin
texere
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antitissue English
- biotissue English
- ground English
- ground tissue English
- intertissued English
- intratissue English
- macrotissue English
- microtissue English
- neotissue English
- nontissue English
- subtissue English
- tissued English
- tissueless English
- tissuelike English
- tissuey English
- texere Latin
- tessere Italian
- tejer Spanish, Castilian
- ティッシュ Japanese
- tissir Old French
- tissu Old French
- teixir Catalan, Valencian
- țese Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ทิชชู Thai
- tisyu Cebuano
- tisu Indonesian
- tecer Old Portuguese
- téisser Occitan
- 티슈 Korean
- *teksō Proto-Italic
- texer Asturian
- tiessi Friulian