fosse

Alternative forms

• foss

Etymology

Via Old French fossa, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɒs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔs/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /fɑs/
• Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs

Noun

fosse (plural fosses)

1. A ditch or moat.
2. (anatomy) Alternative form of fossa

Etymology

From Middle French fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fos/

Noun

fosse f (plural fosses)

1. pit (hole in the ground)

Further reading

• “fosse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology 1

From earlier fusse, from Latin fuisset, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH- (“to become, be”).

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Anagrams

• fesso

Verb

fosse

1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ester

Participle

fosse

1. vocative masculine singular of fossus

References

• fosse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Etymology

From Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.

Noun

fosse f (plural fosses)

1. fosse

Etymology

From Latin fossa.

Noun

fosse f (oblique plural fosses, nominative singular fosse, nominative plural fosses)

1. fosse
2. hole in the ground
3. a grave

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (fosse, supplement)

Pronunciation

Forms of ser and ir:

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.sɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.si/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.se/

Forms of fossar:

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.sɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.si/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.se/

Verb

fosse

1. first-person singular (eu) imperfect subjunctive of ser
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) imperfect subjunctive of ser
3. first-person singular (eu) imperfect subjunctive of ir
4. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) imperfect subjunctive of ir
5. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of fossar
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of fossar
7. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of fossar
8. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of fossar