The corpus record — Latin

fossūra

fossūra · f

a digging

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What it meant

fossūra — Lewis & Short

fossūra, ae, f.fodio,

I a digging (postAug., whereas fossio is quite class.).

I Lit.: plana fossura, Col. 4, 14, 2; Pall. 10, 14, 2.—In plur.: complanata juga fossuris montium, Suet. Calig. 37: puteorum, Vitr. 5, 9, 8; Col. 4, 28, 2.—

II Transf., concr., a pit: summa fossura operiatur arundinibus, Vitr. 8, 1, 4.

Where it came from

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