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 (collective) ossa f or (individual) ossi m)

    1. (anatomy) bone
      bagnato fino all'ossodrenched to the skin
    2. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)
      Synonyms: nocciolo, seme
      ossi di albicoccheapricot 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 schienethe 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

    1. dative/ablative singular of ossum

    Old Dutch

    Etymology

    From Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

    Noun

    osso m

    1. ox

    Inflection

    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)

    1. (anatomy) bone
    Descendants

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    osso m (plural ossos)

    1. alternative form of usso

    Further reading

    Old Spanish

    Etymology

      From Vulgar Latin *ussus, 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.
      • ossa (female bear)

      Descendants

      Portuguese

      Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
      Wikipedia pt
      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)

      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

      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