bossa

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Catalan

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 156: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of borsa.

Pronunciation

Noun

bossa f (plural bosses)

  1. bag

Derived terms

Further reading


French

Verb

bossa

  1. third-person singular past historic of bosser

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from French bosse (hump, lump, small elevation).

Noun

bossa f (plural bossas)

  1. (anatomy) hump (rounded mass, as in a camel)
  2. (anatomy) hunch (protuberance)