fusus

See also: Fusus and fuŝus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.sus/, [ˈfuːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.sus/, [ˈfuːs̬us]
• Homophone: Fūsus

Etymology 1

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

Noun

fūsus m (genitive fūsī); second declension

1. 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)

2. 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 (genus)
  • 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

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.

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^[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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