Morpheme
Scissors
Type
free base
Denotation
shears, cutting instrument
Etymology
Middle English sisours, sisoures, cisours, sesours, cisurs; Old French cisoires, cisoirs; Late Latin cīsōria, from cīsōrium; Latin -cisus, from cidere, from caedere
Evidence
scissors, scissorstail
Notes
<sc> spelling influenced by Latin scissor “tailor, carver, cutter”, from scissum + -tor, from scindere
