ós

See also: Appendix:Variations of "os"

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈos]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Rhymes: -os

Noun

ós m (plural óssos, feminine óssa)

1. Pre-2016 spelling of os (“bear”).

Usage notes

• The spelling ós was deprecated in the 2016 spelling reform. The old spelling can still be used for metalinguistic transcriptions, or when the intended meaning is not clear from the context. See Appendix:Catalan orthography.

Galician

Alternative forms

• aos

Etymology

From contraction of preposition a (“to, towards”) + masculine plural definite article os (“the”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔs/

Contraction

ós m pl (masculine sg ó, feminine sg á, feminine plural ás)

1. Alternative spelling of aos

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse óss, from Proto-Germanic *ōsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”), cognate with Old English ōr, Latin ōs (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ouːs/

Noun

ós m (genitive singular óss, nominative plural ósar)

1. estuary, mouth of the river

Declension

Declension of ós (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ós	ósinn	ósar	ósarnir
accusative	ós	ósinn	ósa	ósana
dative	ósi, ós1	ósnum	ósum	ósunum
genitive	óss	óssins	ósa	ósanna

¹Rare.

Derived terms

• árós
• Blönduós

Irish

Etymology 1

Contraction of ó (“since”) + is (“is”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /oːsˠ/, (before é, ea, í, iad and their emphatic equivalents) /oːʃ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɔːsˠ/, (before é, ea, í, iad and their emphatic equivalents) /ɔːʃ/

Conjunction

ós

1. since... is

   Ós breá an lá inniu, táimid ag dul go dtí an trá.

   Since it’s a fine day today, we’re going to the beach.

   ós eisean a rinne é ― since he’s the one who did it

Related terms

Irish copular forms

simple copular forms
		affirmative	negative	interrogative	negative interrogative
present/future
main clause		is	ní	an	nach
relative clause	direct		nach	–
	indirect	ar, arbv
other subordinate clause		gur, gurbv		an	nach
past/conditional
main clause		ba, b’v	níor, níorbhv	ar, arbhv	nár, nárbhv
relative clause	direct	ba, abv	nár, nárbhv	–
	indirect	ar, arbhv
other subordinate clause		gur, gurbhv		ar, arbhv	nár, nárbhv
present subjunctive
–		gura, gurabv	nára, nárabv	–
compound copular forms
base word		present/future		past/conditional
cá		cár, cárbv		cár, cárbhv
cé		cér, cérbv		cér, cérbhv
dá		–		dá mba, dá mb’v
de/do		dar, darbv		dar, darbhv
faoi		faoinar, faoinarbv		faoinar, faoinarbhv
i		inar, inarbv		inar, inarbhv
le		lenar, lenarbv		lenar, lenarbhv
má		más		má ba, má b’v
mura		mura, murabv		murar, murarbhv
ó (preposition)		ónar, ónarbv		ónar, ónarbhv
ó (conjunction)		ós		ó ba, ó b’v
trí		trínar, trínarbv		trínar, trínarbhv

^v Used before vowel sounds

Preposition

ós

1. Alternative form of ó (used before plural article and before gach)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse *óss (“river mouth”) or Latin ōs, both from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).

Noun

ós m (genitive singular óis, nominative plural óis)

1. (poetic) mouth

Declension

Declension of ós (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative ós óis vocative a óis a ósa genitive óis ós dative ós óis forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-ós na hóis genitive an óis na n-ós dative leis an ós don ós leis na hóis

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ós”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ós”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ós”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

Old Irish

Preposition

ós

1. Alternative form of úas

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈus/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: ós

Noun

ós f

1. genitive plural of osa

   Synonym: os

Portuguese

Noun

ós m pl

1. plural of ó

Romagnol

Etymology

From Latin ostiu(m) (“door”).

Noun

ós m (plural ós)

1. door

Further reading

• Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 410