fusa

See also: Fusa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 総 (fusa).

Noun

1. (sumo) The four knotted tassels hanging from the roof of the dohyo; symbolising the four seasons.

Anagrams

• USAF, aufs, sauf

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.za/
• Homophones: fusas, fusât

Verb

fusa

1. third-person singular past historic of fuser

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Irish

Alternative forms

• usa

Etymology

From earlier usa, from Old Irish assu. Similar to development of fuar and feic, the initial f- of Modern Irish comes from a misinterpretation of usa as fhusa in lenition environments.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfˠʊsˠə/

Adjective

fusa

1. comparative degree of furasta (“easy”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fusa	fhusa	bhfusa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fusa”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fusa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fusa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 usa, ussa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Italian

Etymology 1

From [Term?].

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective fuso.

Participle

fusa

1. feminine singular of fuso

Etymology 2

Archaic irregular plural of fuso (“spindle”), used in sense 2 probably for the sound being similar to that of a spinning spindle.

Noun

fusa f pl

1. (archaic, literary) plural of fuso (“spindle”)
2. (plural only) purr (sound made by a cat)

   fare le fusa ― to purr

Etymology 3

From French fusée (“fusil”).

Noun

fusa f (plural fuse)

1. (music) quasihemidemisemiquaver, semihemidemisemiquaver (hundred twenty-eighth note)

Further reading

• fusa (music) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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Japanese

Romanization

fusa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふさ

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (fūsa) (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.sa/, [ˈfuːs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.sa/, [ˈfuːs̬ä]
• (fūsā) (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.saː/, [ˈfuːs̠äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.sa/, [ˈfuːs̬ä]

Participle 1

(deprecated template usage) fūsa

1. inflection of fūsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Participle 2

(deprecated template usage) fūsā

1. ablative feminine singular of fūsus

Noun

fūsa f (genitive fūsae); first declension

1. (music) quaver (British), eighth note (US)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fūsa	fūsae
Genitive	fūsae	fūsārum
Dative	fūsae	fūsīs
Accusative	fūsam	fūsās
Ablative	fūsā	fūsīs
Vocative	fūsa	fūsae

References

• fusa 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)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian fusa, from French fusée.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.zɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.za/, /ˈfu.zɐ/
• Hyphenation: fu‧sa

Noun

fusa f (plural fusas)

1. (music) demisemiquaver (thirty-second note)

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Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

fusa

1. Alternative form of fasa

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
fusa	fhusa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “fusa”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 usa, ussa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language