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fossis

fossis is a Latin form of fodio, meaning “dig; stab, pierce; (fossa) ditch, trench”. It is the perfect passive participle dative plural masculine or perfect passive participle dative plural neuter or perfect passive participle dative plural feminine or perfect passive participle ablative plural neuter.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.40.3: Hoc avertere loci natura prohibebat: in infimis enim sic radicibus montis ferebatur, ut nullam in partem depressis fossis derivari posset.

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.