tissue English · revision 6023

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1366|origins=fro tissu}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈtɪʃ.uː/, /ˈtɪs.juː/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English tissew, tissu, [[bor|fro|tissu|t=a ribbon, headband, belt of woven material]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) a noun use of tissu “woven”, the past participle of tistre “to weave”,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) from [[la|texere|t=to weave, make]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021) from the PIE root [[ine-pro|*teḱs-|alt=*teks-|t=to weave, fabricate]].^(Etymonline) See [[text]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A rich cloth often interwoven with gold or silver: perhaps before 1366 in the OED;^(OED 1989) a band or belt of rich material about 1385, in Chaucer's ''Troilus and Criseyde''.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Any woven fabric is from 1565,^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) and fine gauzy stuffs by 1730.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The figurative sense, an interwoven series, as in ''a tissue of lies'', is from 1711 in Barnhart and the OED, the early 17th century in Word Origins.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Cresswell 2021) The biological sense, the cellular fabric of living bodies, is from 1831, in Carlyle,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) after the French usage of the anatomist Bichat,^(Etymonline) and of plants from 1837.^(OED 1989) Tissue paper (1777) was supposedly so called because it was placed between folds of fine silk fabric;^(Etymonline) tissue alone for it is from 1780–81 in the OED,^(OED 1989) and a paper handkerchief from 1929.^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1366 – a rich cloth.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1385 – a band of rich material.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1565 – any woven fabric.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1711 – a web, network.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1777 – tissue paper.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1831 – in biology.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1929 – a paper handkerchief.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A mass of similar [[cell|alt=cells]] forming a part of an animal or plant: ''muscle tissue''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A piece of soft, thin paper used as a [[handkerchief]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Thin, light paper used for wrapping; tissue paper.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A fine, light fabric, such as gauze.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # An interwoven series: ''a tissue of lies''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[tissuey]]

+ * [[tissular]]

+ * [[tissual]]

+ * [[adipose tissue]]

+ * [[connective tissue]]

+ * [[facial tissue]]

+ * [[granulation tissue]]

+ * [[scar tissue]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[text]]

+ * [[texture]]

+ * [[textile]]

+ * [[context]]

+ * [[toilet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}