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Italian
Etymology
From Latin ursa.
Pronunciation
Noun
orsa f (plural orse)
- female equivalent of orso (“bear”)
Anagrams
Latin
Participle
ōrsa
- inflection of ōrsus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
ōrsā
- ablative feminine singular of ōrsus
References
- “orsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “orsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- orsa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- orsa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “orsa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly