fossula

English

Etymology

From Latin fossula (“small ditch or trench”).

Noun

fossula (plural fossulae or fossulæ)

  1. (anatomy) A small fossa.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of fossa (“ditch, trench”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fossula f (genitive fossulae); first declension

  1. A small ditch or trench.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fossula fossulae
genitive fossulae fossulārum
dative fossulae fossulīs
accusative fossulam fossulās
ablative fossulā fossulīs
vocative fossula fossulae

Descendants

  • Italian: fiosso
  • → English: fossula

References

  • “fossula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fossula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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