fusus

See also: Fusus and fuŝus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.s̬us]
• Homophone: Fūsus

Etymology 1

Etymology unclear; possibly from a non–Indo-European substrate.

Noun

fūsus m (genitive fūsī); second declension

1. spindle
   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, 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)

2. spinning wheel

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fūsus	fūsī
genitive	fūsī	fūsōrum
dative	fūsō	fūsīs
accusative	fūsum	fūsōs
ablative	fūsō	fūsīs
vocative	fūse	fūsī

Derived terms

• fūsifōrmis
• fūsus argentus

Descendants

• Translingual: Fusidium (genus)
  • English: fusidic
• Aromanian: fus
• Asturian: fusu
• Catalan: fus
• Dalmatian: fois
• Friulian: fûs
• Galician: fuso
• Italian: fuso
  • → English: fuse
• Occitan: fus
• Piedmontese: fus
• Portuguese: fuso
• Romanian: fus
• Sardinian: fusu
• Sicilian: fusu
• Spanish: huso
• Venetan: fuxo
• ⇒ Old French: fusel
  • French: fuseau

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

1. poured out, having been poured out, shed, having been shed
2. founded, having been founded, made by smelting, having been made by smelting
3. (figuratively) moistened, having been moistened, wet, having been wet
4. extended, having been extended, spread out, having been spread out
5. uttered, having been uttered
6. (military) defeated, lost
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, 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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fūsus	fūsa	fūsum	fūsī	fūsae	fūsa
genitive	fūsī	fūsae	fūsī	fūsōrum	fūsārum	fūsōrum
dative	fūsō	fūsae	fūsō	fūsīs
accusative	fūsum	fūsam	fūsum	fūsōs	fūsās	fūsa
ablative	fūsō	fūsā	fūsō	fūsīs
vocative	fūse	fūsa	fūsum	fūsī	fūsae	fūsa

Noun

fūsus m (genitive fūsūs); fourth declension

1. a pouring
2. an outpouring

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fūsus	fūsūs
genitive	fūsūs	fūsuum
dative	fūsuī	fūsibus
accusative	fūsum	fūsūs
ablative	fūsū	fūsibus
vocative	fūsus	fūsūs

References

• “fusus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fusus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fusus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fusus, -i”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fusus, -i”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fusus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a running style: fusum orationis genus
    
  • to follow up and harass the enemy when in flight: hostes (fusos) persequi
    
• “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
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