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fossam

fossam is a Latin form of fodio, meaning “dig; stab, pierce; (fossa) ditch, trench”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative singular feminine.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.8.1: Interea ea legione quam secum habebat militibusque, qui ex provincia convenerant, a lacu Lemanno, qui in flumen Rhodanum influit, ad montem Iuram, qui fines Sequanorum ab Helvetiis dividit, milia passuum XVIIII murum in altitudinem pedum sedecim fossamque perducit.

All forms of fodio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.