osso

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.soː/
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Noun

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

  1. (slang) house
    Synonym: huis

Galician

Noun

osso m (plural ossos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of óso

References

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

Interlingua

Etymology

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

Noun

osso

  1. (anatomy) bone

Italian

Etymology

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; Corsican, Sardinian, and Sicilian ossu; Spanish hueso.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. (anatomy) bone
    bagnato fino all'osso ― drenched to the skin
  2. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)
    Synonyms: nocciolo, seme
    ossi di albicocche ― apricot stones

Usage notes

  • 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 schiene ― the backbones

Related terms

Further reading

  • 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

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

ossō

  1. dative/ablative singular of ossum

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

Noun

osso m

  1. ox

Inflection

Declension of osso (masculine weak n-stem)
Singular Plural
nominative osso osson, -un
accusative osso osson, -un
genitive ossin ossono
dative osson, -in osson

Descendants

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

Further reading

  • “osso”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Galician-Portuguese

Noun

osso m

  1. Alternative form of usso

Old Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  • ossa (“female bear”)

Descendants

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt
ossos

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Related terms

Adjective

osso (invariable)

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

Further reading

Spanish

Pronunciation

Noun

osso m (plural ossos)

  1. Obsolete spelling of oso
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