fossura

Latin

Etymology

From fodiō (“dig; mine, quarry”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /fosˈsuː.ra/, [fɔs̠ˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fosˈsu.ra/, [fosˈsuːrä]

Noun

fossūra f (genitive fossūrae); first declension

1. A digging; pit, ditch.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fossūra	fossūrae
genitive	fossūrae	fossūrārum
dative	fossūrae	fossūrīs
accusative	fossūram	fossūrās
ablative	fossūrā	fossūrīs
vocative	fossūra	fossūrae

Synonyms

• (digging): fossiō

Related terms

Related terms

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

References

• “fossura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fossura 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)
• fossura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.