fossura

From fodiō (“to dig, mine”) +‎ -tūra.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɔsˈsuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fosˈsuː.ra]

fossūra f (genitive fossūrae); first declension

1. A digging; pit, ditch.

First-declension noun.

• (digging): fossiō

• “fossura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "fossura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fossura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.