noun, feminine/tiˈxeɾa/plural: tijeras
scissors
Related: cama de tijera, catre de tijera, cortado con la misma tijera, cortar de tijera, de media tijera, echar la tijera, hacer la tijera, meter la tijera, piedra, papel o tijera, tijeras cortachapas
Inherited from Old Spanish tixera, tisera, from Latin (ferramenta) tōnsōria, from tōnsus. Compare Portuguese tesoura, Galician tesoiras, Asturian tixeres, tisories, Catalan tisores. The unexpected -i- in the Spanish, Asturian, and Catalan forms may perhaps be explained due to influence from synonymous but unrelated Old French cisoires, ciseaux