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語源

From 中期英語 fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /fɒs/
• (米国発音, lot–cloth split, General Australian) IPA: /fɔs/
• (米国発音, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA: /fɑs/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /fɒs/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /fɒs/, [fɔ̟s]
• 韻: -ɒs, -ɔːs

名詞

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.

派生語

参照

• "fosse", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)