mosso
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Spanish mozo. Compare Portuguese moço.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈmo.su]
- IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmo.so]
Audio (Barcelona): (file) - Hyphenation: mos‧so
Noun
[edit]mosso m (plural mossos, feminine mossa, feminine plural mosses)
- porter, bellboy, bellhop
- waiter, steward
- lad, boy
- Synonym: fadrí
- guard
- police officer
- ellipsis of mosso d'esquadra: a Mosso, a member of the Mossos d'Esquadra
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mosso”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “mosso”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
- “mosso”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably analogical with some other verb. Replaces the Classical Latin participle mōtus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]mosso (feminine mossa, masculine plural mossi, feminine plural mosse)
Adjective
[edit]mosso (feminine mossa, masculine plural mossi, feminine plural mosse)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Catalan mosso, in turn from Old Spanish mozo. Doublet of mozo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mosso m (plural mossos)
- a member of the Mossos d'Esquadra
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Related terms
[edit]- Catalan terms borrowed from Old Spanish
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- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- Catalan ellipses
- ca:Occupations
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- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔsso
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔsso/2 syllables
- Italian terms with audio pronunciation
- Italian non-lemma forms
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- it:Music
- Spanish terms borrowed from Catalan
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- Spanish doublets
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- Rhymes:Spanish/oso
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- Spanish lemmas
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- es:Occupations