Word: scissors
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: scis
sors
Definition: A hand with the index and middle fingers open (a handshape resembling scissors), that beats paper and loses to rock. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
Morphemes:
Affix: scissor
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Scissors.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: scissus
Language: la
Decoded: scissus
PoS: Participle
Meaning: broken asunder; divided or separated by force
Affix: -or
Language: la
Decoded: -or
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: used to form a third-declension masculine abstract noun from a verb root or conceived root form
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the word bearing the marker.