osso

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.soː/

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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, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

• soso

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

ossō

1. dative/ablative singular of ossum

From Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

osso m

1. ox

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

• “osso”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

osso m

1. Alternative form of usso

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈoso/

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”), 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.

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

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

osso (invariable)

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

• “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.

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

osso m (plural ossos)

1. Obsolete spelling of oso