fossura

From fodiō (“dig; mine, quarry”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fosˈsuː.ra/, [fɔs̠ˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fosˈsu.ra/, [fosˈsuːrä]

fossūra f (genitive fossūrae); first declension

1. A digging; pit, ditch.

First-declension noun.

• (digging): fossiō

• “fossura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fossura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fossura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.