fossus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perfect passive participle of fodiō (“to dig; to pierce; to goad”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfos.sus/, [ˈfɔs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfos.sus/, [ˈfɔsːus]
Participle[edit]
fossus (feminine fossa, neuter fossum); first/second-declension participle
Inflection[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fossus | fossa | fossum | fossī | fossae | fossa | |
| Genitive | fossī | fossae | fossī | fossōrum | fossārum | fossōrum | |
| Dative | fossō | fossō | fossīs | ||||
| Accusative | fossum | fossam | fossum | fossōs | fossās | fossa | |
| Ablative | fossō | fossā | fossō | fossīs | |||
| Vocative | fosse | fossa | fossum | fossī | fossae | fossa | |
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References[edit]
- “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.