Latin
fodiō
‘to dig, bury’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin fodiō.
9 English words in this record descend from Latin fodiō, most familiar first.
- fossil ← fossile ← fossilis
- calaboose ← calabousse ← calabozo ← *calafodium
- fossorial ← fossōrius
- calabozo ← *calafodium
- effodient ← effodiēns ← effodiō
- effodicate ← effodiō
- fossor
- fossorious
- fodinichnion ← fodīna
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Etymograph / Latin fodiō