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fosa

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See also: fosă and fosą

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Participle

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fosa f sg

  1. feminine singular of fos

Etymology 2

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Nominalization of the feminine singular past participle of fondre.

Noun

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fosa f (plural foses)

  1. melting (of metal, snow, etc.); smelting; casting (of metal)
  2. metalworking
  3. cast iron
  4. (cinematography, music) fade, dissolve
  5. (typography) font

Czech

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Etymology

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From Malagasy fosa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fosa f

  1. fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • fosa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • fosa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Hungarian

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Etymology

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fos +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfoʃɒ]
  • Hyphenation: fo‧sa

Noun

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fosa

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fos

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fosa
accusative fosát
dative fosának
instrumental fosával
causal-final fosáért
translative fosává
terminative fosáig
essive-formal fosaként
essive-modal fosául
inessive fosában
superessive fosán
adessive fosánál
illative fosába
sublative fosára
allative fosához
elative fosából
delative fosáról
ablative fosától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
fosáé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
fosáéi

Irish

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Fosa i zú in Texas

Etymology

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From Malagasy fosa.

Noun

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fosa m (genitive singular fosa, nominative plural fosaí)

  1. fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

Declension

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Declension of fosa (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fosa fosaí
vocative a fhosa a fhosaí
genitive fosa fosaí
dative fosa fosaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fosa na fosaí
genitive an fhosa na bhfosaí
dative leis an bhfosa
don fhosa
leis na fosaí

Mutation

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Mutated forms of fosa
radical lenition eclipsis
fosa fhosa bhfosa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • fosa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Malagasy

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Etymology

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Likely once referred to the Malayan weasel (Mustela nudipes) prior to a semantic shift,[1] thus cognate with Sarawak Malay pusak and Tagalog pusa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fosa

  1. fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

Descendants

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  • English: fossa
    • Portuguese: fossa
    • Translingual: Fossa

References

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  1. ^ Blench, Roger, Walsh, Martin (2011) “Faunal names in Malagasy: their etymologies and implications for the prehistory of the East African coast”, in 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics[1], Aussois, France, pages 1–31

Phuthi

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Verb

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-fosa

  1. to be wrong, to be mistaken

Inflection

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This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
fosa

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin fossa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.sa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔsa
  • Syllabification: fo‧sa

Noun

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fosa f

  1. moat, fosse (deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation)

Declension

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Derived terms

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noun

Further reading

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  • fosa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fosa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fosa f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fosă

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfosa/ [ˈfo.sa]
  • Rhymes: -osa
  • Syllabification: fo‧sa

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin fossa. See also huesa, inherited from the same source. Cognate with English fosse (moat, ditch).

Noun

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fosa f (plural fosas)

  1. cavity
  2. grave
    Synonym: tumba
  3. pit
    Synonym: hoyo
  4. moat
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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fosa

  1. inflection of fosar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Anagrams

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