fosse
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɒs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɔs/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /fɑs/
- Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs
NounEdit
fosse (plural fosses)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fosse f (plural fosses)
- pit (hole in the ground)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “fosse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From earlier fusse, from Latin fuisset, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH- (“to become, be”).
Alternative formsEdit
- fusse (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
fosse
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the main entry.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fosse f
AnagramsEdit
LadinEdit
VerbEdit
fosse
LatinEdit
ParticipleEdit
fosse
ReferencesEdit
- fosse in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.
NounEdit
fosse f (plural fosses)
Derived termsEdit
- French: fosse
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the noun foss
VerbEdit
fosse (imperative foss, present tense fosser, passive fosses, simple past and past participle fossa or fosset, present participle fossende)
ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the noun foss
VerbEdit
fosse (present tense fossar, past tense fossa, past participle fossa, passive infinitive fossast, present participle fossande, imperative foss)
Alternative formsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “fosse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
fosse f (oblique plural fosses, nominative singular fosse, nominative plural fosses)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fosse, supplement)
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Forms of ser and ir:
Forms of fossar:
VerbEdit
fosse
- first-person singular (eu) imperfect subjunctive of ser
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) imperfect subjunctive of ser
- first-person singular (eu) imperfect subjunctive of ir
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) imperfect subjunctive of ir
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of fossar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of fossar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of fossar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of fossar