fossa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fossa (“ditch”).

Etymology 2

A fossa (the mammal) in a zoo in Texas, USA

See Fossa etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• sofas

Noun

fossa f (plural fosses)

1. grave, pit

   fossa comuna

   mass grave

Noun

fossa

1. indefinite accusative plural of foss
2. indefinite genitive plural of foss

Etymology

From Latin fossa.

Noun

fossa f (plural fosse)

1. pit, hole
2. grave
3. (anatomy) fossa
4. trough (depression between waves or ridges)

Anagrams

• sfaso, sfasò

Verb

fossa

1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ester
2. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of ester

Etymology

From fodiō (“dig out, excavate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfos.sa/, [ˈfɔs.sa]

Noun

fossa f (genitive fossae); first declension

1. ditch, trench, moat
2. gutter, waterway
3. (Late Latin) grave

References

• fossa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fossa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fossa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fossa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a ditch, a fosse: fossam ducere
    
  • to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
    
• fossa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fossa in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Verb

fossa

1. third-person singular present indicative of fossar
2. second-person singular imperative of fossar