Latin

Proper noun

Fūsus m ‎(genitive Fūsī); second declension

1. A male cognomen of the Medullinus and Pacilus families of the Furia gens — famously held by:
   1. Sextus Furius Medullinus Fusus, consul in 488 BC
   2. Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus, two men:
      1. consul in 481 BC
      2. consul in 464 BC
   3. Lucius Furius Medullinus Fusus, consul in 474 BC
   4. Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus, consul in 472 BC
   5. Agrippa Furius Fusus, consul in 446 BC
   6. Gaius Furius Pacilus Fusus, consul in 441 BC, censor in 435 BC, and tribunus militum consulari potestate in 426 BC
   7. Lucius Furius Spurii filius Medullinus Fusus, tribunus militum consulari potestate in 432, 425, and 420 BC
   8. Marcus Furius Fusus, tribunus militum consulari potestate in 403 BC
   9. Agrippa Furius Sexti filius Fusus, tribunus militum consulari potestate in 391 BC

Declension

Second declension.

References

• Fusus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Latin

Noun

fūsus m ‎(genitive fūsī); second declension

1. spindle
2. spinning wheel

Declension

Second declension.

Derived terms

• fūsus argentus

See also

• colus ‎(“distaff”)

Descendants

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of fundō ‎(“pour out; found, smelt”).

Participle

fūsus m ‎(feminine fūsa, neuter fūsum); first/second declension

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

Declension

First/second declension.

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fusus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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

1. ↑ “fuso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2