fossa

See also: fossá

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin fossa (“ditch”).

Noun

fossa (plural fossae or fossæ)

  1. (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
  2. (geology) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
Hyponyms
(anatomy) Hyponyms of fossa
  • antecubital fossa
  • anterior cranial fossa
  • cubital fossa
  • fossa navicularis
  • fossa ovalis
  • glenoid fossa
  • iliac fossa
  • infraspinous fossa
  • jugular fossa
  • mandibular fossa
  • middle cranial fossa
  • mugular fossa
  • nasal fossa
  • pelvic fossa
  • popliteal fossa
  • posterior cranial fossa
  • subscapular fossa
  • supraclavicular fossa
  • supraspinous fossa
  • temporal fossa
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Translations

Etymology 2
A fossa (the mammal) in a zoo in Texas, USA

See Fossa etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

fossa (plural fossas)

  1. A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox.
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Catalan

Noun

fossa f (plural fosses)

  1. grave, pit
    fossa comuna
    mass grave

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɔsːa

Noun

fossa

  1. indefinite accusative plural of foss
  2. indefinite genitive plural of foss

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fossa.

Noun

fossa f (plural fosse)

  1. pit, hole
  2. grave
  3. (anatomy) fossa
  4. trough (depression between waves or ridges)

Anagrams

Ladin

Verb

fossa

  1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ester
  2. third-person plural imperfect subjunctive of ester

Latin

Etymology

From fodiō (“dig out, excavate”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfos.sa/, [ˈfɔs.sa]

Noun

fossa f (genitive fossae); first declension

  1. ditch, trench, moat
  2. gutter, waterway
  3. (Late Latin) grave

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fossa fossae
Genitive fossae fossārum
Dative fossae fossīs
Accusative fossam fossās
Ablative fossā fossīs
Vocative fossa fossae

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References
  • fossa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fossa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fossa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • fossa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to make a ditch, a fosse: fossam ducere
    • to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
  • fossa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fossa in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

fossa

  1. simple past and past participle of fosse

Portuguese

Verb

fossa

  1. third-person singular present indicative of fossar
  2. second-person singular imperative of fossar
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