Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo oso (house), from English house. Doublet of house and huis.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.soː/
  • (file)

Noun edit

osso c (plural osso's, diminutive ossootje n)

  1. (slang) house
    Synonym: huis

Galician edit

Noun edit

osso m (plural ossos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of óso

References edit

  • osso” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Interlingua edit

Etymology edit

Compare Catalan os, French os, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Sardinian ossu, Spanish hueso.

Noun edit

osso

  1. (anatomy) bone

Italian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone), *h₂óst.

Compare Catalan, French, and Romanian os; Portuguese osso; Sardinian ossu; Spanish hueso.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

osso m (plural (in the literal meaning) ossa f or (referring to slaughtered animals or figuratively) ossi m)

  1. (anatomy) bone
    bagnato fino all'ossodrenched to the skin
  2. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)
    Synonyms: nocciolo, seme
    ossi di albicoccheapricot stones

Usage notes edit

  • The feminine plural ossa denotes bones collectively:
    Mi fanno male tutte le ossa.All my bones are aching.
  • The masculine plural individual bones:
    gli ossi delle schienethe backbones

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  •   osso on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • osso in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • osso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • osso in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • osso in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • osso in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • osso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ossō

  1. dative/ablative singular of ossum

Old Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

Noun edit

osso m

  1. ox

Inflection edit

Descendants edit

  • Middle Dutch: osse
    • Dutch: os
      • Afrikaans: os
      • Negerhollands: os

Further reading edit

  • osso”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Noun edit

osso m

  1. Alternative form of usso

Old Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin *ussus (compare Old Galician-Portuguese usso), from Latin ursus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

osso m (plural ossos)

  1. bear
    • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 59r:
      Et las dos eſtrellas la que es poſtrimera delas dos q́ ſon en el ombro del oſſo.
      And of the two stars, the one that is the furthest of the two that are the bear's haunch.
    • Idem, 96v.
      […] ⁊ no fazen danno en el logar do ella ſouiere leones ni oſſos. ni otros bestiglos malos
      […] and where it were placed, no lions, bears or other foul beasts would be dangerous.

Related terms edit

  • ossa (female bear)

Descendants edit

Portuguese edit

 
Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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ossos

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese osso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os (bone), from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone), *h₂óst.

Compare Catalan, French, and Romanian os, Interlingua, Italian, and Sardinian osso, Spanish hueso.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

osso m (plural ossos, metaphonic)

  1. (anatomy) bone
    Holonym: esqueleto
    O cão enterrou um osso.
    The dog buried a bone.
  2. (uncountable) bone (material)
  3. (figuratively) a difficulty
    Synonym: dificuldade

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Adjective edit

osso (invariable)

  1. (Brazil, colloquial) difficult
  2. (Brazil, colloquial) annoying

Further reading edit

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

osso m (plural ossos)

  1. Obsolete spelling of oso