fosse
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɒs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɑs/, /fɔs/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /fɑs/
- Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs
Noun
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
Translations
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.
Pronunciation
Noun
fosse f (plural fosses)
- pit (hole in the ground)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fosse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Verb
fosse
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ir
Italian
Etymology 1
From earlier fusse, from Latin fuisset, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH- (“to become, be”).
Alternative forms
- fusse (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Verb
fosse
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
fosse f
Anagrams
Ladin
Verb
fosse
Latin
Participle
fosse
References
- 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
Etymology
From Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.
Noun
fosse f (plural fosses)
Derived terms
- French: fosse
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the noun foss.
Verb
fosse (imperative foss, present tense fosser, passive fosses, simple past and past participle fossa or fosset, present participle fossende)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the noun foss.
Verb
fosse (present tense fossar, past tense fossa, past participle fossa, passive infinitive fossast, present participle fossande, imperative fosse/foss)
Alternative forms
References
- “fosse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
Noun
fosse oblique singular, f (oblique plural fosses, nominative singular fosse, nominative plural fosses)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fosse, supplement)
Portuguese
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
fosse
- first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ir
- first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: fos‧se
Verb
fosse
- inflection of fossar:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
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