fossus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of fodiō (“to dig; to pierce; to goad”).

Pronunciation

Participle

fossus (feminine fossa, neuter fossum); first/second-declension participle

  1. perfect passive participle of fodiō

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative fossus fossa fossum fossī fossae fossa
genitive fossī fossae fossī fossōrum fossārum fossōrum
dative fossō fossae fossō fossīs
accusative fossum fossam fossum fossōs fossās fossa
ablative fossō fossā fossō fossīs
vocative fosse fossa fossum fossī fossae fossa

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: fosso
  • Sicilian: fossu

References

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