osso

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.soː/

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

1. (slang) house

   Synonym: huis

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

osso

1. (anatomy) bone

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst. Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Sardinian osso, Spanish hueso.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔsso]
• òsso, /ˈɔsso/

osso m (plural ossa f, alternative plural ossi m)

1. (anatomy) bone

   bagnato fino all'osso ― drenched to the skin

2. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)

   Synonym: nocciolo

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

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ossō

1. dative singular of ossum
2. ablative singular of ossum

From Proto-Germanic *uhsô.

osso m

1. ox

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: osse
  • Dutch: os
    • Afrikaans: os

• “osso”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Vulgar Latin *ussus (compare Old Portuguese usso), from Latin ursus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos.

• IPA^(key): [ˈo.so]

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”)

• Spanish: oso

From Old Portuguese osso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os (“bone”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst. Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Italian osso, Romanian os, Sardinian osso, Spanish hueso.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈo.su/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈo.so/
• Hyphenation: os‧so

osso m (plural ossos)

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

• (difficulty): dificuldade

• (bone): esqueleto

• ossos do ofício
• roer os ossos

osso (plural osso, comparable)

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

osso m (plural ossos)

1. Obsolete spelling of oso