fosa

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See also: fosă and fosą

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Participle

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fosa f sg

  1. feminine singular of fos

Etymology 2

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Nominalization of the feminine singular past participle of fondre.

Noun

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fosa f (plural foses)

  1. melting (of metal, snow, etc.); smelting; casting (of metal)
  2. metalworking
  3. cast iron
  4. (cinematography, music) fade, dissolve
  5. (typography) font

Czech

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Etymology

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From Malagasy fosa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fosa f

  1. fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

Declension

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Declension of fosa (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative fosa fosy
genitive fosy fos
dative fose fosám
accusative fosu fosy
vocative foso fosy
locative fose fosách
instrumental fosou fosami

Further reading

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  • “fosa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “fosa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Hungarian

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Etymology

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fos ‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfoʃɒ]
  • Hyphenation: fo‧sa

Noun

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fosa

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fos

Declension

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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative fosa —
accusative fosát —
dative fosának —
instrumental fosával —
causal-final fosáért —
translative fosává —
terminative fosáig —
essive-formal fosaként —
essive-modal fosául —
inessive fosában —
superessive fosán —
adessive fosánál —
illative fosába —
sublative fosára —
allative fosához —
elative fosából —
delative fosáról —
ablative fosától —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		fosáé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		fosáéi —

Irish

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Fosa i zú in Texas

Etymology

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From Malagasy fosa.

Noun

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fosa m (genitive singular fosa, nominative plural fosaí)

  1. fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

Declension

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Declension of fosa

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fosa fosaí
Vocative a fhosa a fhosaí
Genitive fosa fosaí
Dative fosa fosaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fosa na fosaí
Genitive an fhosa na bhfosaí
Dative leis an bhfosa

don fhosa

leis na fosaí

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fosa fhosa bhfosa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • “fosa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Malagasy

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Etymology

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Likely once referred to the Malayan weasel (Mustela nudipes) prior to a semantic shift,[1] thus cognate with Sarawak Malay pusak and Tagalog pusa.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fosa

  1. fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)

Descendants

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  • → English: fossa
    • → Portuguese: fossa
    • → Translingual: Fossa

References

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  1. ^ Blench, Roger, Walsh, Martin (2011) “Faunal names in Malagasy: their etymologies and implications for the prehistory of the East African coast”, in 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics‎[1], Aussois, France, pages 1–31

Phuthi

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Verb

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-fosa

  1. to be wrong, to be mistaken

Inflection

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This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
fosa

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin fossa.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.sa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔsa
  • Syllabification: fo‧sa

Noun

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fosa f

  1. moat, fosse (deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation)

Declension

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Declension of fosa
singular plural
nominative fosa fosy
genitive fosy fos
dative fosie fosom
accusative fosę fosy
instrumental fosą fosami
locative fosie fosach
vocative foso fosy

Derived terms

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noun

Further reading

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  • fosa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fosa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fosa f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fosă

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfosa/ [ˈfo.sa]
  • Rhymes: -osa
  • Syllabification: fo‧sa

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin fossa. See also huesa, inherited from the same source. Cognate with English fosse (“moat, ditch”).

Noun

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fosa f (plural fosas)

  1. cavity
  2. grave
    Synonym: tumba
  3. pit
    Synonym: hoyo
  4. moat
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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fosa

  1. inflection of fosar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Anagrams

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