urso

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈurso]
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• Rhymes: -urso
• Hyphenation: ur‧so

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

1. bear

• karnomanĝulo (“a carnivore”)

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

• ursaro (“a sleuth of bears”)

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

From English urson.

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

urso

1. North American porcupine, Canadian porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum

• kanadanpuupiikkisika (dated)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.so/

urso (plural ursi)

1. bear

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.so/

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.

ursō m

1. dative/ablative singular of ursus

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

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

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

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

• ursídeo
• ursinho
• piurso

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