fosse

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See also: Fosse, fossé, fòsse, and fôsse

English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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.

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

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Noun

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fosse f (plural fosses)

  1. pit (hole in the ground)
    fosse communemass grave (literally, “common pit”)
    fosse septiqueseptic tank, cesspit

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Galician

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Verb

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fosse

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

Italian

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Etymology 1

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From earlier fusse, from Latin fuisset, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH- (to become, be).

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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fosse

  1. third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of essere

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Noun

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fosse f

  1. plural of fossa

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Ladin

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Verb

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fosse

  1. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ester

Latin

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Participle

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fosse

  1. vocative masculine singular of fossus

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French fosse, from Latin fossa.

Noun

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fosse f (plural fosses)

  1. fosse

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From the noun foss.

Verb

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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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From the noun foss.

Verb

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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

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Latin fossa.

Noun

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

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

Descendants

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  • Middle French: fosse

References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (fosse, supplement)

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Verb

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fosse

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

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: fos‧se

Verb

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fosse

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