fossor

From Latin fossor (“digger; gravedigger”), from fodiō (“dig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɒsə(ɹ)/

fossor (plural fossors)

1. (historical) A gravedigger in the catacombs of Ancient Rome.
2. A type of mole cricket, Gryllotalpa fossor, known for its digging abilities.

• (type of mole cricket): scudder

From fodiō (“dig; mine, quarry”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔs.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔs.sor]

fossor m (genitive fossōris); third declension

1. A digger, delver, ditcher.
2. A workman in a mine; miner.
3. A gravedigger.
4. A common labourer; clown.

Third-declension noun.

• English: fossor

• “fossor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fossor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fossor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.