fosse
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɒs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɑs/, /fɔs/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /fɑs/
- Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs
Noun edit
fosse (plural fosses)
- A ditch or moat.
- 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 486:
- [T]he ground was […] scattered with the masses of ruined buildings, that had formerly been part of the outward fortifications, but of which some were fallen into the fosse, and others overgrown with alder, ash, and arbeal.
- (anatomy) Alternative form of fossa
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fosse f (plural fosses)
- pit (hole in the ground)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “fosse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Verb edit
fosse
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ir
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From earlier fusse, from Latin fuisset, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH- (“to become, be”).
Alternative forms edit
- fusse (obsolete)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fosse
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fosse f
Anagrams edit
Ladin edit
Verb edit
fosse
Latin edit
Participle edit
fosse
References edit
- fosse 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)
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.
Noun edit
fosse f (plural fosses)
Derived terms edit
- French: fosse
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From the noun foss.
Verb edit
fosse (imperative foss, present tense fosser, passive fosses, simple past and past participle fossa or fosset, present participle fossende)
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From the noun foss.
Verb edit
fosse (present tense fossar, past tense fossa, past participle fossa, passive infinitive fossast, present participle fossande, imperative fosse/foss)
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- “fosse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
fosse oblique singular, f (oblique plural fosses, nominative singular fosse, nominative plural fosses)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fosse, supplement)
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fosse
- first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ir
- first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: fos‧se
Verb edit
fosse
- inflection of fossar: