fossil
German, adjective
fossil is spelled F-O-S-S-I-L (6 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written German, the 28,576th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fossil is a German adjective meaning “fossil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fossil is a different word: “fossil”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “aus der erdgeschichtlichen Vergangenheit stammend”.
What does fossil mean in English?
adjective
- 1
fossil
noun
- 1
neuterfossil
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. aus der erdgeschichtlichen Vergangenheit stammend
noun: 1. (oft versteinertes oder ausgegrabenes) Zeugnis vergangenen Lebens aus der Erdgeschichte, das älter als 10.000 Jahre ist 2. etwas, das als alt beziehungsweise rückständig gilt (Person, Fahrzeug und dergleichen)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fossil
- fossiler masculine nominative singular
- fossile feminine nominative singular
- fossiles neuter nominative singular
- fossilen genitive masculine singular
- fossilem dative masculine singular
- der fossile definite includes-article masculine
- die fossile definite feminine includes-article
- das fossile definite includes-article neuter
- die fossilen definite includes-article nominative
- des fossilen definite genitive includes-article
- der fossilen definite feminine genitive
- dem fossilen dative definite includes-article
- den fossilen dative definite includes-article
- Fossilien nominative plural
- Fossils genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to fossil
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fossil in German?
fossil appears 1.6 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).