fossatum

From fossō (“dig”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fosˈsaː.tum/, [fɔsˈsaː.tũ]

fossātum n (genitive fossātī); second declension

1. a ditch, especially in earthwork fortifications.

Second declension.

• Aromanian: fusate, fusati
• Italian: fossato
• Old French: fossé
  • Middle French: fossé
    • French: fossé
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: fosado
• Sicilian: fussatu
• → Arabic: فسطاط‎ (fusṭāṭ)
• → Ancient Greek: φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton)
  • Greek: φουσάτο (fousáto)
  • → Albanian: fshat
    • → Romanian: sat, fsat

fossātum

1. accusative masculine singular of fossātus

• fossatum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fossatum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fossatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette