fosse

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See also: Fosse, fossé, fòsse, and fôsse

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fosse (plural fosses)

  1. 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.
  2. (anatomy) Alternative form of fossa

Derived terms

Translations

French

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

fosse f (plural fosses)

  1. pit (hole in the ground)

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Verb

fosse

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser
  2. (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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfos.se/
  • Rhymes: -osse
  • Hyphenation: fós‧se

Verb

fosse

  1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of essere

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Noun

fosse f

  1. plural of fossa

Anagrams

Ladin

Verb

fosse

  1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ester

Latin

Participle

fosse

  1. vocative masculine singular of fossus

References

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.

Noun

fosse f (plural fosses)

  1. fosse

Derived terms

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)

  1. to cascade, gush, pour, rush, foam

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)

  1. to cascade, gush, pour, rush, foam

Alternative forms

References

Old French

Etymology

From Latin fossa.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

  • Middle French: fosse

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

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ir
  2. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ser

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: fos‧se

Verb

fosse

  1. inflection of fossar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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