Fomes

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

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fomes
fōmes, ĭtis, m. [foveo], kindling-wood, touch-wood, tinder. I Lit.: silici scintillam excudit Achat...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
fomes
fōmes itis, m FAV-, kindling-wood, tinder : Rapuit in fomite flammam, V. ...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary