fodio

Inherited from Proto-Italic *foðjō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰódʰh₂ey, from *bʰedʰh₂-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔ.di.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.di.o]

fodiō (present infinitive fodere, perfect active fōdī, supine fossum); third (-iō variant) conjugation

1. (literal) to dig, dig up, dig out; to bury; to dig or clear out the earth from a place; to mine, quarry

   Synonym: effodiō

   ager frugifer, argentum etiam incolae fodiunt ― The soil is fertile, (and) inhabitants dig the silver also

2. (transferred sense, Classical Latin) to prick, prod, pierce, thrust, jab, stab, wound

   Synonyms: trānsfīgō, peragō, fīgō, intrō, trāiciō, percutiō, cōnfodiō, trānsigō

3. (figuratively) to goad, sting, disturb

Note that the present passive infinitive is sometimes written as fodirī instead of fodī.

• fossa
• fossātus
• fossula

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• “fodio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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• "fodio", 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)
• “fodio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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