fusus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.s̬us]
• Homophone: Fūsus

Etymology unclear;^[1] possibly from a non–Indo-European substrate.

fūsus m (genitive fūsī); second declension

1. spindle
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.31.19:

     manum suam mīsit ad fortia, et digitī ejus apprehendērunt fūsum

     She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

2. spinning wheel

Second-declension noun.

• fūsus argentus

• colus (“distaff”)

Perfect passive participle of fundō (“pour out; found, smelt”).

fūsus (feminine fūsa, neuter fūsum, comparative fūsior); first/second-declension participle

1. poured out, having been poured out, shed, having been shed
2. founded, having been founded, made by smelting, having been made by smelting
3. (figuratively) moistened, having been moistened, wet, having been wet
4. extended, having been extended, spread out, having been spread out
5. uttered, having been uttered
6. (military) defeated, lost
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.3 :

     Tantum tamen opes creverant maxime fusis Etruscis ut

     Yet the strength [of Latins] had grown so powerful, especially because the Etruscans being defeated

First/second-declension adjective.

• “fusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fusus", 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)
• fusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a running style: fusum orationis genus
    
  • to follow up and harass the enemy when in flight: hostes (fusos) persequi
    
• “fusus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fusus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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