fossil
English
Etymology
From French fossile, from Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“I dig up”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: fos‧sil
Noun
fossil (plural fossils)
- The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
- (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
- 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 162:
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
- (linguistics) A fossil word.
- (figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
Derived terms
Translations
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Danish
Etymology 1
From Latin fossilis, from fossa (“ditch”).
Adjective
fossil
- fossil (noun modifier), fossilised (UK), fossilized
Inflection
Inflection of fossil | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | fossil | — | —2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | fossilt | — | —2 |
Plural | fossile | — | —2 |
Definite attributive1 | fossile | — | — |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
Etymology 2
Noun
fossil n (singular definite fossilet, plural indefinite fossiler)
Inflection
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fossil | fossilet | fossiler | fossilerne |
genitive | fossils | fossilets | fossilers | fossilernes |
German
Etymology
From Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“I dig up”).
Adjective
fossil (not comparable)
Declension
Further reading
- “fossil” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Adjective
fossil (neuter singular fossilt, definite singular and plural fossile)
- fossilised (UK), fossilized, or fossil (noun modifier: e.g. fossil fuels)
Etymology 2
From New Latin [Term?]
Noun
fossil m or n (definite singular fossilen or fossilet, indefinite plural fossiler or fossil, definite plural fossilene or fossila)
- a fossil (fossilised remains of an animal or plant)
Derived terms
References
- “fossil” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Adjective
fossil (neuter singular fossilt, definite singular and plural fossile)
- fossilised (UK), fossilized, or fossil (noun modifier)
Etymology 2
From New Latin
Noun
fossil n (definite singular fossilet, indefinite plural fossil, definite plural fossila)
- a fossil (as above)
References
- “fossil” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Adjective
fossil
Declension
Inflection of fossil | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | fossil | — | — |
Neuter singular | fossilt | — | — |
Plural | fossila | — | — |
Masculine plural3 | fossile | — | — |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | fossile | — | — |
All | fossila | — | — |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Noun
fossil n
- a fossil
Declension
Declension of fossil | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | fossil | fossilet | fossil | fossilen |
Genitive | fossils | fossilets | fossils | fossilens |
Declension of fossil | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | fossil | fossilet | fossiler | fossilerna |
Genitive | fossils | fossilets | fossilers | fossilernas |
Related terms
References
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/ɒsəl
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Paleontology
- English terms with quotations
- en:Linguistics
- Danish terms derived from Latin
- Danish lemmas
- Danish adjectives
- Danish entries with topic categories using raw markup
- Danish terms derived from New Latin
- Danish nouns
- Danish neuter nouns
- da:Paleontology
- German terms derived from Latin
- German lemmas
- German adjectives
- German uncomparable adjectives
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål adjectives
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from New Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk adjectives
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from New Latin
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
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- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish adjectives
- Swedish uncomparable adjectives
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- sv:Paleontology