tose

English

Alternative forms

• toze, toase, toaze

Etymology

From Middle English tosen (“to card wool”), from Old English *tāsan (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisan (“to tug, separate, shred”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide, separate”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊz/

Verb

tose (third-person singular simple present toses, present participle tosing, simple past and past participle tosed)

1. To pull apart or asunder; touse.

Derived terms

• toser
• tosy

Anagrams

• ETOs, Seto, TEOS, TOEs, Teos, Toes, toes

Galician

Alternative forms

• tos, tuse

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tosse (13th century), from Latin tussis, tussem (“cough”). Cognate with Portuguese tosse and Spanish tos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔsɪ/

Noun

tose f (plural toses)

1. cough
   • c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 61:

     Et quando orio ou aveea deren ao Cauallo deuen no alinpar e scudyr do poo, prjmeiramente porque o poo aduz tosse

     And all the barley and oats that they give the horse must be cleaned and shaken off of dust, firstly because dust brings cough

Derived terms

• tose ferina

Related terms

Verb

tose

1. third-person singular present indicative of tusir

References

• “tosse” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tosse” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tose” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tose” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tose” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

tose

1. inflection of tosen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Verb

tose

1. Alternative form of tosen

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔzi

Verb

tose

1. inflection of tosar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtose/
• Rhymes: -ose
• Syllabification: to‧se

Verb

tose

1. inflection of toser:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative