fissus

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-- In the following verbs the perfects were originally reduplicated, but have lost the reduplicating syllable: -- per-cellō percellere perculī perculsus _strike down_ findō findere fidī fissus _split_ scindō scindere scidī scissus _tear apart_ tollō tollere sus-tulī sublātus _remove_

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
In the fish Arius fissus the male actually carries about the ova in the mouth, protected by the jaws, till relieved of the inconvenience by the hatching of the young fry.

The Common Frog 1874