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English
Pronunciation
Noun
ossa
- plural of os
Anagrams
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /osˈsa/
- Hyphenation: os‧sa
Noun
ossá f
- addition
- (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)
- skeleton; the bones of an animal
- Synonyms: ossada, ossera
Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin ursa.
Pronunciation
Noun
ossa f (plural osses, masculine os)
- 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
- illative singular of osa
Finnish
Etymology
Clipping of osoite.
Pronunciation
Noun
ossa (colloquial)
- address
Declension
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
ossa f
- plural of osso
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
ossa
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of os
Noun
ossa
- 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)
- 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
Descendants
Romansch
Noun
l'ossa pl
- (Sutsilvan) plural of oss