oscar

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See also: Oscar, OSCAR, Óscar, and Òscar

Translingual

Noun

oscar

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Oscar of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

Noun

oscar (plural oscars)

  1. A cichlid fish of species Astronotus ocellatus, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.
    Synonyms: marble cichlid, velvet cichlid

Further reading

Etymology 2

Noun

oscar

  1. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Oscar from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From osca +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

Verb

oscar (first-person singular present osco, first-person singular preterite osquí, past participle oscat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

  1. to nick, to dent (a blade)
    S'osca el coltell més dur si és mal usat.
    The hardest knife will become nicked if it's ill used.

Conjugation

    Conjugation of oscar (first conjugation, c-qu alternation)
infinitive oscar
gerund oscant
past participle masculine feminine
singular oscat oscada
plural oscats oscades
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present osco osques osca osquem osqueu osquen
imperfect oscava oscaves oscava oscàvem oscàveu oscaven
future oscaré oscaràs oscarà oscarem oscareu oscaran
preterite osquí oscares oscà oscàrem oscàreu oscaren
conditional oscaria oscaries oscaria oscaríem oscaríeu oscarien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present osqui osquis osqui osquem osqueu osquin
imperfect osqués osquessis osqués osquéssim osquéssiu osquessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós 		vostès
affirmative — osca osqui osquem osqueu osquin
negative (no) — no osquis no osqui no osquem no osqueu no osquin

Derived terms

Further reading

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish oscar (“outsider, new-comer, stranger; layperson, non-professional person; unskilled person, ignorant person; foe, enemy (especially an unknown one or stranger); (in late poetry) warrior, hero”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

  1. (literary) warrior, hero

Etymology 2

From Old Irish oscor, oscar m (“leap, bound”).

Noun

oscar m (genitive singular oscair, nominative plural oscair)

  1. leap, bound; agility
  2. (swimming) stroke
Alternative forms

Declension

Declension of oscar (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative oscar oscair
vocative a oscair a oscara
genitive oscair oscar
dative oscar oscair
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-oscar na hoscair
genitive an oscair na n-oscar
dative leis an oscar
don oscar 		leis na hoscair

Mutation

Mutated forms of oscar
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oscar n-oscar hoscar t-oscar

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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