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Fils vs Fiss - What's the difference?

fils | fiss |

As an adjective fils

is Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.

As a noun fils

is the son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.

As a verb fiss is

to split apart into multiple entities.

fils

English

Adjective

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    • Usage notes

    * Current usage of differentiating fathers and sons is borrowed from French; hence this term follows the name as it does in French grammar.

    Antonyms

    * pere

    Noun

  • (rare) The son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.
    • ----

    fiss

    English

    Verb

  • (nonstandard) To split apart into multiple entities.
  • *1998 , Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?
  • *:Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed , with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere...