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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfɒsə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈfɑsə/, /ˈfɔsə/
• 韻: -ɒsə, -ɑsə, -ɔsə

名詞

fossa (plural fossae or (obsolete) fossæ)

1. (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.

   Hyponyms: cubital fossa, fossa of Rosenmüller, glenoid fossa, iliac fossa, incisive fossa, infratemporal fossa, nasal fossa, piriform fossa, popliteal fossa, pterygopalatine fossa, rhomboid fossa, suprainiac fossa, temporal fossa

   Coordinate terms: fovea, sinus; fissure, sulcus, cleft, lacuna, vallecula

2. (astronomy) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.

派生語

関連する語

• fosse
• fossula
• fossulate

参照

• fossa (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Borrowing from Malagasy fosa which likely once referred to the Malayan weasel (Mustela nudipes) prior to a semantic shift, thus cognate with Malay pusak and Tagalog pusa both meaning "cat".

発音

• Approximation of Malagasy pronunciation [ˈfusə̥]:
  • (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈfuː.sə/, /ˈfʊ.sə/
• Spelling pronunciation according to English orthography:
  • (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfɒ.sə/
  • (米国発音) IPA: /ˈfɑ.sə/, /ˈfɔ.sə/
• 韻: -uːsə, -ʊsə, -ɒsə, -ɑsə, -ɔsə

名詞

fossa (plural fossas)

1. A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.

派生した語

• → Portuguese: fossa

参照

• fossa (animal) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “fossa”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “fossa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• sofas, Fasos, SOFAs

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfɔs.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfɔs.sa]

名詞

fossa f (genitive fossae); first declension

1. (literal)
   1. (in general) a ditch, trench, moat, fosse
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.33:

     Quiritium quoque fossa [...] Anci regis opus est

     Also the Quirites’ ditch was the work of king Ancus

   Synonyms: fovea, scrobis, fossiō

   1. a gutter, waterway

      Synonym: colliciae

   2. a furrow drawn to mark foundations
   3. (Late Latin) a grave
2. (transferred sense) a boundary

Inflection

First-declension noun.

派生語

• fossula

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• “fossa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fossa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fossa", 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)
• “fossa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a ditch, a fosse: fossam ducere
    
  • to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
    
• “fossa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fossa”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin