breakdown, breakup, decomposition, fission, splitting (separation of a thing into components) · breakdown, decomposition (breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements) · decay
çekim: çoğul διασπάσεις · tamlayan διάσπασης
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διάσπασις (diáspasis, “forcible separation”) with -ση (-si) ending and semantic loan from English fission and disruption.
çekim: geçmiş despicat · ortaç despicat · şimdiki despică
köken: Inherited from Latin dēspicāre (“to cleave or cut the bowels (of an animal), empty a sacrificial animal”). Compare Aromanian disic, dischic, Megleno-Romanian dispic.
A two-pronged fork, pitchfork. · A fork-shaped prop, pole or stake. · An instrument of punishment, a frame in the form of a fork, which was placed on a culprit's neck, while his hands were fastened to the two ends; yoke.
çekim: çoğul furcae · tamlayan furcae
köken: Of uncertain origin. In its primary sense of "fork", furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In the other senses, this derivation is unlikely. For those, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”).…
From Middle High German spalten (strong verb), from Old High German spaltan, ultimately from or related to Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan (“to destroy, spoil, ruin”). Cognate with English spald (“to split”), Danish spalte (“to split”), Norwegian Bokmål spalte (“to split”), Swedish spalta (“to split”).