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Latin
Etymology
From fodiō (“dig; mine, quarry”) + -īna.
Pronunciation
Noun
fodīna f (genitive fodīnae); first declension
- A place from which a mineral is dug; mine, pit.
- Synonym: metallum
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “fodina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fodina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fodina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers