mosso
Catalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Spanish mozo. Compare Portuguese moço.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmosso m (plural mossos, feminine mossa)
- porter, bellboy, bellhop
- waiter, steward
- lad, boy
- Synonym: fadrí
- police officer
- Ellipsis of mosso d'esquadra.: a Mosso, a member of the Mossos d'Esquadra
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mosso” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mosso” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “mosso”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Italian
editEtymology
editProbably analogical with some other verb. Replaces the Classical Latin participle mōtus.
Pronunciation
editParticiple
editmosso (feminine mossa, masculine plural mossi, feminine plural mosse)
Adjective
editmosso (feminine mossa, masculine plural mossi, feminine plural mosse)
Spanish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Catalan mosso, in turn from Old Spanish mozo. Doublet of mozo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmosso m (plural mossos)
- a member of the Mossos d'Esquadra
Usage notes
editAccording to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Related terms
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- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
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- Catalan masculine nouns
- Catalan ellipses
- ca:Occupations
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- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔsso
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔsso/2 syllables
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- it:Music
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- Rhymes:Spanish/oso
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- es:Occupations