Significatio vocis fossorium | Babel Free

Definitiones

a spade, an implement for digging

Early, Late-Latin, Medieval-Latin, declension-2

Exempla

“Scudicia dicta eo, quod circa codicem terram aperiat; et quamvis eius usus in reliquis operibus habeatur, nomen tamen ex codice retinet. hanc alii generaliter fossorium vocant, quasi fovessorium.”

1967 translation by K. D. White The scudicia is so called because it opens the earth around the base (of the plant); and although it is used for other operations, it still retains its name from the base (codex). Others commonly call it a trenching tool, as if the word were derived from fovea (a hole).

“Sarculum, sarpa vel fossorium”

Gradus CEFR