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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Sranan Tongo oso ( “ house ” ) , from English house . Doublet of house and huis .
Pronunciation
Noun
osso c (plural osso's , diminutive ossootje n )
( slang ) house
Synonym: huis
Galician
Noun
osso m (plural ossos , reintegrationist norm )
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
( 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 ( collective ) ossa f or ( individual ) ossi m )
( anatomy ) bone
bagnato fino all'osso ― drenched to the skin
( botany ) stone , pit (in fruits)
Synonyms: nocciolo , seme
ossi di albicocche ― apricot stones
Usage notes
The feminine plural ossa refers to the bones of a living being as a whole, i.e. the skeleton or, by extension, the body:
Mi fanno male tutte le ossa . ― All my bones are aching.
Le sue ossa riposano nella tomba di famiglia. ― His bones are resting in the family tomb.
The masculine plural refers to bones considered individually, not as a whole:
gli ossi delle schiene ― the backbones
Il macellaio butta via gli ossi . ― The butcher throws the bones away.
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
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
ossō
dative / ablative singular of ossum
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ohsō .
Noun
osso m
ox
Inflection
Declension of osso (masculine an-stem noun)
Descendants
Middle Dutch: osse
Dutch: os Afrikaans: os Negerhollands: os
Further reading
“osso ”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek , 2012
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Latin ossum , popular variant of os ( “ bone ” ) , from Proto-Italic *ōs , ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ ( “ bone ” ) , *h₂óst .
Pronunciation
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Noun
osso m (plural ossos )
( anatomy ) bone
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
osso m (plural ossos )
alternative form of usso
Further reading
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *ussus , from Latin ursus .
Pronunciation
Noun
osso m (plural ossos )
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.
Descendants
Portuguese
ossos
Etymology
Inherited 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 Galician óso , Spanish hueso , Catalan , French , and Romanian os , Interlingua , Italian , and Sardinian osso .
Pronunciation
Noun
osso m (plural ossos , metaphonic )
( anatomy ) bone
Holonym: esqueleto
O cão enterrou um osso . The dog buried a bone .
( uncountable ) bone (material)
( figuratively ) a difficulty
Synonym: dificuldade
Derived terms
Adjective
osso (invariable )
( Brazil , colloquial ) difficult
( Brazil , colloquial ) annoying
Further reading
“osso ”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008 –2025
“osso ”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006 –2025
“osso ” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo , 1913
“osso ”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003 –2025
“osso ”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015 –2025
“osso ”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008 –2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
osso m (plural ossos )
obsolete spelling of oso