Verb
fodiō (present infinitive fodere, perfect active fōdī, supine fossum); third conjugation iō-variant
- (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
- (transferred sense, Classical Latin) to prick, prod, pierce, thrust, jab, stab, wound
- Synonyms: trānsfīgō, peragō, fīgō, intrō, trāiciō, percutiō, cōnfodiō, trānsigō
- (figuratively) to goad, sting, disturb
Conjugation
Note that the present passive infinitive is sometimes written as fodirī instead of fodī.
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Descendants
Descendants
- French: fouir
- Italian: fodire
- Old Occitan: foire
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fodiare
References
- “fodio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fodio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fodio in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- "fodio", 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)
- 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