toise

See also: toisé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French toise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔɪz/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɪz
• Homophone: toys

Noun

toise (plural toises)

1. (historical) A former French unit of length, corresponding to about 1.949 metres.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     […] the greater its speed, the less visible it grows, until at around a Thousand Toises per Minute, it vanishes entirely […]

Translations

former French unit of length — see also brace,‎ fathom

• Breton: tez (br)
• Catalan: toesa, braça
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土瓦兹

• Dutch: toise (nl)
• Esperanto: klafto
• French: toise (fr)
• Galician: braza (gl)
• Italian: tesa (it)
• Japanese: トワーズ
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: toise

• Portuguese: toesa, braça (pt)
• Russian: туаз (ru) (tuaz)
• Spanish: toesa (es), braza (es)
• Swedish: toise
• Turkish: kulaç (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قولاچ (kulaç)

• Ukrainian: туаз (tuaz)

Anagrams

• ETSOI, OSETI, osite

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twaz/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

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. (historical) toise (former French unit of length equal to six pieds)
2. height gauge

Derived terms

• toiser

Descendants

• Portuguese: toesa
• Spanish: toesa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

toise

1. inflection of toiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “toise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• ostie

Irish

Alternative forms

• tois

Etymology

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Noun

toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)

1. alternative form of tomhas (“measure, gauge; guess, riddle”)
2. size, measure, measurement
3. dimension

Declension

Declension of toise (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative toise toisí vocative a thoise a thoisí genitive toise toisí dative toise toisí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an toise na toisí genitive na toise na dtoisí dative leis an toise don toise leis na toisí

Derived terms

• aontoiseach (“one-dimensional”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of toise

radical	lenition	eclipsis
toise	thoise	dtoise

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “toise”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “toise”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “toise”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026