ossa

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English

Pronunciation

Noun

ossa

  1. plural of os

Anagrams

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /osˈsa/,
  • Hyphenation: os‧sa

Noun

ossá f 

  1. addition
  2. (mathematics) addition

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin ossa.

Pronunciation

Noun

ossa f (plural osses)

  1. skeleton; the bones of an animal
    Synonyms: ossada, ossera

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin ursa.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

ossa f (plural osses, masculine os)

  1. she-bear, female bear
    • 2016 October 6, “Un home sobreviu a l'atac d'una ossa i mostra les ferides”, in El Periódico‎:
      La història d'un home nord-americà que va sobreviure a l'atac d'una ossa dissabte passat a prop de la localitat de Bozeman (Montana, EUA) s'ha convertit en l'últim fenomen viral a la xarxa.
      The story of an American man who survived an attack by a bear last Saturday near the town of Bozeman (Montana, USA) has become the latest viral phenomenon on the net.

Further reading

Estonian

Noun

ossa

  1. illative singular of osa

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of osoite.

Pronunciation

Noun

ossa (colloquial)

  1. address

Anagrams

Italian

Noun

ossa f

  1. plural of osso

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

ossa

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of os

Noun

ossa

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ossum

References

  • ossa 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)
  • “ossa”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “ossa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ossa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “ossa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “ossa”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ursa, feminine of ursus (“bear”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ossa f (plural ossas)

  1. she-bear
    • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 29v:
      Et la eſtrella que es en cabo dela oreia delantera dela oſſa mayor a poder ſobreſta piedra ⁊ della recibe la fuerça ⁊ la uertud.
      And the start that is on the front ear of the Great Bear has power over this stone, and it receives its strength and virtue from it.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Spanish: osa

Romansch

Noun

l'ossa pl

  1. (Sutsilvan) plural of oss
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