urso

urso

See also: Urso

Esperanto

Nigra urso

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ursus. Compare French ours, Italian orso, Spanish oso, Portuguese urso, Romanian urs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈurso]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -urso
• Hyphenation: ur‧so

Noun

urso (accusative singular urson, plural ursoj, accusative plural ursojn)

1. bear

Hypernyms

• karnomanĝulo (“a carnivore”)

Hyponyms

• virurso (“male bear”)
• ursido (“bear cub”)
• ursino (“female bear”)

Holonyms

• ursaro (“a sleuth of bears”)

Derived terms

• (astronomy) la Granda Urso (Ursa Major)
• (astronomy) la Malgranda Urso (Ursa Minor)
• ursa (“ursine”)

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Finnish

Etymology

From English urson.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈurso/, [ˈurs̠o̞]
• Rhymes: -urso
• Syllabification^(key): ur‧so

Noun

urso

1. North American porcupine, Canadian porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum

Declension

Inflection of urso (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		urso	ursot
genitive		urson	ursojen
partitive		ursoa	ursoja
illative		ursoon	ursoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		urso	ursot
accusative	nom.	urso	ursot
	gen.	urson
genitive		urson	ursojen
partitive		ursoa	ursoja
inessive		ursossa	ursoissa
elative		ursosta	ursoista
illative		ursoon	ursoihin
adessive		ursolla	ursoilla
ablative		ursolta	ursoilta
allative		ursolle	ursoille
essive		ursona	ursoina
translative		ursoksi	ursoiksi
instructive		—	ursoin
abessive		ursotta	ursoitta
comitative		—	ursoineen

Possessive forms of urso (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ursoni	ursomme
2nd person	ursosi	ursonne
3rd person	ursonsa

Synonyms

• kanadanpuupiikkisika (dated)

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto urso, Italian orso, French ours, Spanish oso and English ursid, all ultimately from Latin ursus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.so/

Noun

urso (plural ursi)

1. bear

Hyponyms

• ursino (“female bear, bear sow”)
• ursulo (“male bear, bear boar”)
• uryuno (“bear cub”)

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.so/

Noun

urso (plural ursos)

1. bear
   • 1958, Science News, page 404.

     In le passato, un maximo annual de 50 ursos polar esseva occidite per chassatores human. In 1957, le total esseva 206, gratias (o forsan: disgratias) al aeroplano que rende possibile le persecution del ursos mesmo quande illos ha prendite refugio super insulas de glacia flottante.

     In the past, an annual maximum of 50 polar bears had been killed by human hunters. In 1957, the total was 206, thanks (or maybe: no thanks) to the aeroplane that renders the persecution of bears possibile even when they have taken refuge on ice floes.

   • 1967 May, Rodman Wilson, "Bear Meat Trichinosis: Profound Serum Protein Alterations, Minor Eosinophilia, and Response to Thiabendazole", Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 66, No. 5, page 970.

     Un femina residente de Alaska, de 22 annos de etate, mangiava mal cocite carne de urso in un bizarre tentativa a suicidio.

     A woman, resident of Alaska, 22 years old, ate poorly cooked bear meat in a bizarre suicide attempt.

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Latin

Noun

ursō m

1. dative/ablative singular of ursus

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Portuguese

urso (Ursus arctos arctos)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ursus (“bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”). Displaced the inherited doublet usso.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuʁ.su/ [ˈuh.su]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuʁ.su/ [ˈuh.su]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.su/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈuʁ.su/ [ˈuχ.su]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuɻ.so/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.su/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuh.su/
• Hyphenation: ur‧so

Noun

urso m (plural ursos, feminine ursa, feminine plural ursas)

1. bear
2. (derogatory, colloquial) unsociable person, misanthrope

Related terms

• ursídeo
• ursinho
• piurso

Further reading

• “urso” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “urso” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.