ossa

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See also: Ossa

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ossa

  1. plural of os

Anagrams[edit]

Afar[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /osˈsa/, [ʔɔsˈsʌ]
  • Hyphenation: os‧sa

Noun[edit]

ossá f 

  1. addition
  2. (mathematics) addition

References[edit]

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Catalan[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin ossa.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ossa f (plural osses)

  1. skeleton; the bones of an animal
    Synonyms: ossada, ossera

Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Latin ursa.

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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ossa f (plural osses, masculine os)

  1. she-bear, female bear
    • 2016 October 6, “Un home sobreviu a l'atac d'una ossa i mostra les ferides”, in El Periódico[2]:
      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.

Further reading[edit]

Estonian[edit]

Noun[edit]

ossa

  1. illative singular of osa

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of osoite.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈosːɑ/, [ˈo̞s̠ːɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -osːɑ
  • Syllabification(key): os‧sa

Noun[edit]

ossa (colloquial)

  1. address

Anagrams[edit]

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

ossa f

  1. plural of osso

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

ossa

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of os

Noun[edit]

ossa

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ossum

References[edit]

  • ossa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ossa”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[3]
  • 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 and Roman 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

Old Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin ursa, feminine of ursus (bear).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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.

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Descendants[edit]

  • Spanish: osa

Romansch[edit]

Noun[edit]

l'ossa pl

  1. (Sutsilvan) plural of oss