fosse

• foss

From Middle English fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɒs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑs/, /fɔs/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /fɑs/
• Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs

fosse (plural fosses)

1. A ditch or moat.
   • 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 486:

     [T]he ground was […] scattered with the masses of ruined buildings, that had formerly been part of the outward fortifications, but of which some were fallen into the fosse, and others overgrown with alder, ash, and arbeal.

2. (anatomy) Alternative form of fossa.

Inherited from Middle French fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.

• IPA^(key): /fos/, (Belgium, southern France, Switzerland) /fɔs/

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• Homophones: fausse, fausses, fosses

fosse f (plural fosses)

1. pit (hole in the ground)

   fosse commune ― mass grave (literally, “common pit”)

   fosse septique ― septic tank, cesspit

• fossette
• fossoyer

• “fosse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

fosse

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser
2. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ir

From earlier fusse, from Latin fuisset, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH- (“to become, be”).

• fusse (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfos.se/^[1]
• Rhymes: -osse
• Hyphenation: fós‧se

fosse

1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of essere

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔs.se/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔsse
• Hyphenation: fòs‧se

fosse f

1. plural of fossa

• fesso

fosse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ester

fosse

1. vocative masculine singular of fossus

• "fosse", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.

fosse f (plural fosses)

1. fosse

• French: fosse

From the noun foss.

fosse (imperative foss, present tense fosser, passive fosses, simple past and past participle fossa or fosset, present participle fossende)

1. to cascade, gush, pour, rush, foam

• “fosse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “fosse” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From the noun foss.

fosse (present tense fossar, past tense fossa, past participle fossa, passive infinitive fossast, present participle fossande, imperative fosse/foss)

1. to cascade, gush, pour, rush, foam

• fossa

• “fosse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin fossa.

fosse oblique singular, f (oblique plural fosses, nominative singular fosse, nominative plural fosses)

1. fosse
2. hole in the ground
3. a grave

• Middle French: fosse
  • French: fosse

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fosse, supplement)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Homophone: fouce
• Hyphenation: fos‧se

fosse

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ir
2. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: fos‧se

fosse

1. inflection of fossar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative