toise

From French toise.

• IPA^(key): /tɔɪz/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪz
• Homophone: toys

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 […]

• ETSOI, OSETI, osite

• IPA^(key): /twaz/

From Old French teise (cognate with Italian tesa), from Latin tēnsa (bracchia) (“outstretched (arms)”), from tendō (“stretch”).

toise f (plural toises)

1. (historical) toise (former French unit of length)
2. height gauge

• toiser

• Portuguese: toesa
• Spanish: toesa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

toise

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

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

• ostie

• tois

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toise f (genitive singular toise, nominative plural toisí)

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

• aontoiseach (“one-dimensional”, adjective)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “toise”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “toise”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “toise”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025