fossoria

See also: Fossoria

Latin

Etymology

Substantive of fossōrius (“adapted to digging or delving”), from fodiō (“dig”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fosˈsoː.ri.a/, [fɔs̠ˈs̠oːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fosˈso.ri.a/, [fosˈsɔːriä]

Noun

fossōria f (genitive fossōriae); first declension

1. (as an occupation) digging

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fossōria	fossōriae
genitive	fossōriae	fossōriārum
dative	fossōriae	fossōriīs
accusative	fossōriam	fossōriās
ablative	fossōriā	fossōriīs
vocative	fossōria	fossōriae

Related terms

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Asturian: fesoria

References

• “fossoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press