osseous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin osseus (“bony, (attributive) bone”), from os (“bone”) + -eus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒsi.əs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

osseous (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.
   • 1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York: The MacMillan Company, page 120:

     One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General' — a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson.

Derived terms

• endosseous
• exosseous
• extraosseous
• immunoosseous
• interosseous
• intraosseous
• nonosseous
• osseous tissue
• perosseous
• preosseous
• supraosseous
• transosseous

 

Translations

relating to bone

• Arabic: عَظْمِيّ (ʕaẓmiyy)
• Belarusian: касцявы́ (kascjavý), касцяны́ (kascjaný) (especially "made of bone")
• Bulgarian: ко́стен (kósten)
• Catalan: ossi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 骨的 (zh) (gǔ de)

• Czech: kostní (cs)
• Dutch: been- (nl), benig (nl), knokig (nl)
• Finnish: luu- (fi) (consisting of bone tissue), luinen (fi) (made of bone)
• French: osseux (fr)
• German: knöchern (de), Knochen- (de)
• Ido: ostala (io)
• Kazakh: сүйектік (süiektık)
• Latin: osseus
• Macedonian: коскен (kosken)
• Persian: استخوانی (fa) (ostoxâni)
• Polish: kostny (pl)
• Portuguese: ósseo (pt)
• Romanian: osos (ro)
• Russian: ко́стный (ru) (kóstnyj), костяно́й (ru) (kostjanój) (especially "made of bone")
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀штан

  Roman: kòštan (sh)

• Slovak: kostný (sk)
• Slovene: kosten
• Spanish: óseo (es)
• Ukrainian: кісткови́й (kistkovýj), кістяни́й (kistjanýj) (especially "made of bone")