ossa

ossa

1. plural of os

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From Latin ossa.

ossa f (plural osses)

1. skeleton; the bones of an animal

   Synonyms: ossada, ossera

ossa f (plural osses)

1. Alternative spelling of óssa
   • 2016 October 6, “Un home sobreviu a l'atac d'una ossa i mostra les ferides”, in El Periódico‎:

     La història d'un home nord-americà que va sobreviure a l'atac d'una ossa dissabte passat a prop de la localitat de Bozeman (Montana, EUA) s'ha convertit en l'últim fenomen viral a la xarxa.

     The story of an American man who survived an attack by a [she-]bear last Saturday near the town of Bozeman (Montana, USA) has become the latest viral phenomenon on the net.

• “ossa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Clipping of osoite.

ossa

1. (colloquial) address

• saos

ossa f

1. plural of osso

• asso

ossa

1. nominative plural of os (bone)
2. accusative plural of os (bone)
3. vocative plural of os (bone)

ossa

1. nominative plural of ossum
2. accusative plural of ossum
3. vocative plural of ossum

• ossa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ossa in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• ossa in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ossa in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• ossa in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• ossa in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

From Latin ursa, feminine of ursus (“bear”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈo.sa]

ossa f (plural ossas)

1. she-bear
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 29v.

     Et la eſtrella que es en cabo dela oreia delantera dela oſſa mayor a poder ſobreſta piedra ¬ della recibe la fuerça ¬ la uertud.

     And the start that is on the front ear of the Great Bear has power over this stone, and it receives its strength and virtue from it.

• Ossa Mayor (“Ursa Major, the Great Bear”)
• Ossa Menor (“Ursa Minor, the Little Bear”)

• osso (“bear”)

• Spanish: osa

l'ossa pl

1. (Sutsilvan) plural of oss