fusus
See also: Fusus and fuŝus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfuː.sus/, [ˈfuːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfu.sus/, [ˈfuːs̬us]
- Homophone: Fūsus
Etymology 1
Etymology unclear;[1] possibly from a non–Indo-European substrate.
Noun
fūsus m (genitive fūsī); second declension
- spindle
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs 31:19:
- manum suam mīsit ad fortia, et digitī ejus apprehendērunt fūsum
- She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)
- manum suam mīsit ad fortia, et digitī ejus apprehendērunt fūsum
- spinning wheel
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fūsus | fūsī |
| Genitive | fūsī | fūsōrum |
| Dative | fūsō | fūsīs |
| Accusative | fūsum | fūsōs |
| Ablative | fūsō | fūsīs |
| Vocative | fūse | fūsī |
Derived terms
- fūsus argentus
Descendants
- Translingual: Fusidium (generic name)
- English: fusidic
- Aromanian: fus
- Asturian: fusu
- Catalan: fus
- Dalmatian: fois
- English: fuse
- French: fuseau
- Friulian: fûs
- Galician: fuso
- Italian: fuso
- Occitan: fus
- Piedmontese: fus
- Portuguese: fuso
- Romanian: fus
- Sardinian: fusu
- Sicilian: fusu
- Spanish: huso
- Venetian: fuxo
See also
- colus (“distaff”)
Etymology 2
Perfect passive participle of fundō (“pour out; found, smelt”).
Participle
fūsus (feminine fūsa, neuter fūsum, comparative fūsior); first/second-declension participle
- poured out, having been poured out, shed, having been shed
- founded, having been founded, made by smelting, having been made by smelting
- (figuratively) moistened, having been moistened, wet, having been wet
- extended, having been extended, spread out, having been spread out
- uttered, having been uttered
- (military) defeated, lost
- Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 3:
- Tantum tamen opes creverant maxime fusis Etruscis ut
- Yet the strength [of Latins] had grown so powerful, especially because the Etruscans being defeated
- Tantum tamen opes creverant maxime fusis Etruscis ut
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fūsus | fūsa | fūsum | fūsī | fūsae | fūsa | |
| Genitive | fūsī | fūsae | fūsī | fūsōrum | fūsārum | fūsōrum | |
| Dative | fūsō | fūsō | fūsīs | ||||
| Accusative | fūsum | fūsam | fūsum | fūsōs | fūsās | fūsa | |
| Ablative | fūsō | fūsā | fūsō | fūsīs | |||
| Vocative | fūse | fūsa | fūsum | fūsī | fūsae | fūsa | |
References
- “fusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fusus 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)
- fusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a running style: fusum orationis genus
- to follow up and harass the enemy when in flight: hostes (fusos) persequi
- a running style: fusum orationis genus
- “fusus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fusus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- DIZIONARIO LATINO OLIVETTI
- “fuso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN