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From Middle English tosen (to card wool), from Old English *tāsan (to tease), from Proto-West Germanic *taisan (to tug, separate, shred), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (to divide, separate).

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tose (third-person singular simple present toses, present participle tosing, simple past and past participle tosed)

  1. To pull apart or asunder; touse.

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Galician

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From Old Galician-Portuguese tosse (13th century), from Latin tussis, tussem (cough). Cognate with Portuguese tosse and Spanish tos.

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tose f (plural toses)

  1. cough
    • c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:
      Et quando orio ou aveea deren ao Cauallo deuen no alinpar e scudyr do poo, prjmeiramente porque o poo aduz tosse
      And all the barley and oats that they give the horse must be cleaned and shaken off of dust, firstly because dust brings cough

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tose

  1. third-person singular present indicative of tusir

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German

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  • Audio:(file)

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tose

  1. inflection of tosen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Middle English

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tose

  1. Alternative form of tosen

Portuguese

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tose

  1. inflection of tosar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtose/ [ˈt̪o.se]
  • Rhymes: -ose
  • Syllabification: to‧se

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tose

  1. inflection of toser:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative