fossatum

Latin

Etymology

From fossō (“to dig”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fosˈsaː.tum/, [fɔs̠ˈs̠äːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fosˈsa.tum/, [fosˈsäːt̪um]

Noun

fossātum n (genitive fossātī); second declension

1. (from 3rd century CE) trench particularly for military use, a ditch especially in earthwork fortifications
2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) fortification around trenches; camp, military base
3. (Medieval Latin, Hispania) army, camp

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	fossātum	fossāta
genitive	fossātī	fossātōrum
dative	fossātō	fossātīs
accusative	fossātum	fossāta
ablative	fossātō	fossātīs
vocative	fossātum	fossāta

Related terms

Related terms

• fodicō
• fodīna
• fodiō
• fossa
• fossātus
• fossīcius
• fossilis
• fossiō
• fossō
• fossor
• fossōrius
• fossula
• fossūra
• fossus

Descendants

• Aromanian: fusate, fusati
• Catalan: fossat
• Dalmatian: *fosát
  • → Serbo-Croatian: fosat, fusat, fusot, pȍsāt
• Italian: fossato
• Old French: fossé
  • Middle French: fossé
    • French: fossé
• Old Galician-Portuguese: fossado
  • Portuguese: fossado
• Old Spanish: fonsado, fonssado, fosado
  • Spanish: fonsado
• Sicilian: fussatu
• → Ancient Greek: φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton, “encampment”)
  • Greek: φουσάτο (fousáto)
  • → Albanian: fshat (“village”)
    • → Aromanian: fsat
    • → Romanian: sat, fsat — obsolete
  • → Arabic: فُسْطَاط (fusṭāṭ), فُسْتَاط (fustāṭ), فُسَّاط (fussāṭ)

Noun

fossātum

1. accusative masculine singular of fossātus

References

• “fossatum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fossatum 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)
• fossatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Johannes Kramer (2010) “φοσσᾶτον / fossatum”, in Von der Papyrologie zur Romanistik (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete; Beiheft 30), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 350 seqq.