osso

osso

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.soː/

• Audio

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Noun

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

1. (slang) house

   Synonym: huis

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Interlingua

Etymology

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

Noun

osso

1. (anatomy) bone

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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; Sardinian ossu; Spanish hueso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.so/
• Rhymes: -ɔsso
• Hyphenation: òs‧so

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

• disossare
• ossaccio
• ossame
• ossario
• ossatura
• osseina
• osseo
• osserello
• ossetto
• ossicino
• ossicolo
• ossifero
• ossificazione
• ossobuco
• ossoso
• ossuto

 

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

• soso

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈos.soː/, [ˈɔs̠ːoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈos.so/, [ˈɔsːo]

Noun

ossō

1. dative/ablative singular of ossum

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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

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Old Portuguese

Noun

osso m

1. Alternative form of usso

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Old Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoso/

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

• Spanish: oso

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Portuguese

ossos

Etymology

From Old 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.su/

• Homophone: ouço (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: os‧so

Noun

osso m (plural ossos, metaphonic)

1. (anatomy) bone

   O cão enterrou um osso.

   The dog buried a bone.

   Holonym: esqueleto

2. (uncountable) bone (material)
3. (figuratively) a difficulty

   Synonym: dificuldade

Derived terms

• desossar
• ossos do ofício
• roer os ossos

 

Related terms

• ossada
• ossama
• ossame
• ossamenta
• ossaria
• ossário
• ossatura
• ósseo
• ossículo
• ossificação
• ossificado
• ossificar
• ossuário
• ossudo
• ostealgia
• osteálgico
• osteíte
• osteogénese
• osteogenia
• osteografia
• osteologia
• osteólogo
• osteomalacia
• osteometria
• osteopatia
• osteoporose
• osteose
• osteossarcoma
• osteotomia

 

Adjective

osso (invariable)

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

Further reading

• “osso” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “osso” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “osso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “osso” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “osso” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “osso” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoso/ [ˈo.so]
• Rhymes: -oso

Noun

osso m (plural ossos)

1. Obsolete spelling of oso