The corpus record — Latin

fossio

fossio · f

a digging

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Where it lives

De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6 · 0.76/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

fossĭo — Lewis & Short

fossĭo, ōnis, f.fodio,

I a digging (rare but class.): recenti fossione terram fumare calentem, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25; Col. 11, 2, 41; Plin. 17, 26, 39, § 247.—In plur.: quid fossiones agri repastinationesque proferam? Cic. de Sen. 15, 53.—

II Transf., a ditch, Vitr. 8, 1, 5.

Where it came from

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