dorso
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dorso (accusative singular dorson, plural dorsoj, accusative plural dorsojn)
- back (of body, hand, book, etc)
Derived terms edit
- dorsoflanko (“backside”)
- dorsosako (“backpack”)
- mandorso (“back of the hand; backhand”)
- montodorso (“mountain ridge”)
Ido edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dorso (plural dorsi)
- back (of body, hand, book, etc.)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dorsum; doublet of the inherited dosso.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈdor.so/, (traditional) /ˈdɔr.so/[2]
- Rhymes: -orso, (traditional) -ɔrso
- Hyphenation: dór‧so, (traditional) dòr‧so
Noun edit
dorso m (plural dorsi)
- back (of body, hand, book, etc.)
- ridge, shoulder
- (swimming) backstroke
Derived terms edit
- addosso
- dorsale
- dorsalgia
- dorsista
- dorsoventrale
- mostrare il dorso (“run away”)
- piega il dorso (“to obey or give in”)
References edit
- ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951
- ^ dorso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
dorsō
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dorsum. Displaced the inherited dosso.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: dor‧so
Noun edit
dorso m (plural dorsos)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dorsum. Cf. also Dueso, which was inherited and found in place-names.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dorso m (plural dorsos)
- (anatomy) back
- Synonym: espalda
- (Mexico) backstroke
- Synonyms: espalda, estilo espalda
Further reading edit
- “dorso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014