Sliced

How to spell sliced

6 letters · 1 syllable

How to pronounce sliced

What does sliced mean?

1. verbCut something into thin, flat pieces, or cut cleanly through it (past tense and past participle of slice).
2. adjectiveAlready cut into thin, flat pieces.

Sliced in a sentence

• verb

  He sliced the tomatoes for the salad.

• adjective

  Sliced bread saves time on busy mornings.

• verb

  She sliced the loaf evenly before the guests arrived.

• adjective

  The deli sells sliced ham by the kilogram.

Where does sliced come from?

Language of origin: French

This is the past form of the verb 'slice', which English took from Old French in the 1300s. The Old French noun 'esclice' meant a splinter or a thin shaving of wood, and it came from the verb 'esclicier', meaning to splinter or to split. That French word itself traces back to a Frankish root '*slizzan', meaning to slit or split, which makes it a distant Germanic cousin of the modern English word 'slit'. The original idea of breaking something into thin flat fragments still survives in the way we slice bread, meat, or cake today. The spelling is straightforward once you remember that the silent final 'e' of 'slice' is dropped before the '-d' ending is added.

How the word is built

• slice (from Old French esclice: a splinter or thin piece)
• -d (past tense / past participle suffix)