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fossus
fossus
Latin
Participle
fossus m (feminine fossa, neuter fossum); first/second declension
- Dug up, out or around, buried, mined, quarried, having been dug, buried, mined or quarried.
- Pricked, prodded, pierced, stabbed, wounded, having been pricked, prodded, pierced, stabbed or wounded.
- Goaded, stung, disturbed, having been goaded, stung or disturbed.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | fossus | fossa | fossum | fossī | fossae | fossa | |
| genitive | fossī | fossae | fossī | fossōrum | fossārum | fossōrum | |
| dative | fossō | fossō | fossīs | ||||
| accusative | fossum | fossam | fossum | fossōs | fossās | fossa | |
| ablative | fossō | fossā | fossō | fossīs | |||
| vocative | fosse | fossa | fossum | fossī | fossae | fossa | |
References
- fossus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fossus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- FOSSUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fossus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.