oso

See also: Oso, -oso, óso, osó, osò, and 'oso

Arigidi

Noun

oso

1. house, home

References

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

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Basque

Adjective

oso

1. whole
2. all
3. very

Usage notes

In the meaning 'whole' it is fully adjectival in its behaviour, being placed after the noun and taking normal inflections for the end of the noun phrase. In the meaning 'very' it precedes another adjective and commonly precedes the noun as well:

• mendi osoa ― the whole mountain
• mendi oso handia ― the very big mountain
• oso mendi handia ― the very big mountain
• mendia oso handia da ― the mountain is very big

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Cebuano

Noun

oso

1. a bear

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish oso (“bear”), from Old Spanish osso, from Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).

Noun

oso

1. bear

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese usso, from Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoso̝/

Noun

oso m (plural osos)

1. bear (animal)

Derived terms

• Osedo
• oseira
• Oseira

References

• “usso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “oso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “usso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “oso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “oso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.zo/
• Hyphenation: ò‧so
• Rhymes: -ɔzo

Etymology 1

From Latin ausus, perfect participle of audeō (“I dare, venture, risk”).

Adjective

oso (feminine singular osa, masculine plural osi, feminine plural ose) (archaic or literary)

1. bold, daring

   Synonyms: ardito, audace

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIV, lines 130–132, page 258:

     Forse la mia parola par troppo osa, ¶ posponendo il piacer de li occhi belli, ¶ ne’ quai mirando mio disio ha posa

     Perhaps my word appears somewhat too bold, postponing the delight of those fair eyes, into which gazing my desire has rest

   1. Used in the archaic locution essere oso: to dare (literally, “to be daring, bold”)
      • c. 1307, Dante Alighieri, “Trattato quarto, Capitolo VI [Fourth Treatise, Chapter 6]”, in Convivio [The Banquet]‎^[1], Florence: Le Monnier, published 1964, section 10:

        E diffiniro così questo onesto: ’quello che, sanza utilitade e sanza frutto, per sè di ragione è da laudare’. E costoro e la loro setta chiamati furono Stoici, e fu di loro quello glorioso Catone di cui non fui di sopra oso di parlare.

        And they defined this integrity as “that which apart from utility or profit is for its own sake praiseworthy according to reason.” They and their sect were called Stoics, and to them belonged that glorious Cato of whom I did not dare to speak above.

      • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Trionfo della fama, Capitolo III [Triumph of Fame, Chapter 3]”, in I trionfi [Triumphs], collected in Le rime di M. Francesco Petrarca, Venice: Giuseppe Bortoli, published 1739, page 314:

        Vidi Archimede star col viso basso ¶ E Democrito andar tutto pensoso ¶ Per suo voler di lume e d’oro casso; ¶ Vidi Ippia, il vecchiarel che già fu oso ¶ Dir: - Io so tutto, - e poi di nulla certo

        I saw Archimedes looking down, and Democritus going immersed in thought, by his own will without light or gold; I saw Hippias, the old man that dared to say: "I know everything", and yet sure of nothing

Related terms

• osare

Etymology 2

Substantivization of the chemistry suffix -oso.

Noun

oso m (plural osi)

1. (biochemistry) Synonym of osio (“monose”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

oso

1. first-person singular present indicative of osare

References

• oso¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• oso² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Japanese

Romanization

oso

1. Rōmaji transcription of おそ

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Latin

Participle

ōsō

1. dative masculine singular of ōsus
2. dative neuter singular of ōsus
3. ablative masculine singular of ōsus
4. ablative neuter singular of ōsus

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

oso

1. (obsolete) past plural of asa

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Nzadi

Noun

osó (plural esó)

1. face

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.sɔ/

Noun

oso f

1. vocative singular of osa

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

oso (Cyrillic spelling осо)

1. vocative singular of osa

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoso/
• Rhymes: -oso

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish osso, from Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus (compare Asturian osu, Aragonese onso, Catalan ós, French ours, Italian orso, Portuguese urso (Old Portuguese usso), Romanian urs), from Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).

Noun

oso m (plural osos, feminine osa, feminine plural osas)

1. bear (in general)
2. boar, male bear
3. (slang) bear (large hairy man, especially homosexual)

   Tengo un amigo delgado al que le gustan solo los osos barrigudos y velludos.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Alternative forms

• osso (obsolete)

Derived terms

• ajo de oso
• hacer el oso
• hacerse el oso
• no vendas la piel del oso antes de cazarlo
• oreja de oso
• osezno
• osito
• oso andino
• oso blanco
• oso cavernario
• oso de agua
• oso de anteojos
• oso hormiguero
• oso Kodiak
• oso lavador
• oso malayo
• oso marino ártico
• oso melero
• oso negro
• oso panda
• oso pardo
• oso polar
• oso tibetano
• oso viscoso
• osuno

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

oso

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of osar.

Further reading

• “oso” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.so/

Noun

oso

1. house

Derived terms

• lontoso
• skowt oso

Descendants

• → Dutch: osso

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Tagalog

isang oso

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish oso.

Noun

oso

1. bear (mammal)

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Venetian

Etymology

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os. Compare Italian osso.

Noun

oso m (plural osi)

1. bone