tuso

See also: tusó

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuso/

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• Rhymes: -uso
• Hyphenation: tu‧so

Noun

tuso (accusative singular tuson, plural tusoj, accusative plural tusojn)

1. cough

Derived terms

• tusi (to cough)

Galician

Verb

tuso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tusir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuso/ [ˈt̪u.so]
• Rhymes: -uso
• Syllabification: tu‧so

Etymology 1

From the irregular old past participle of the verb tundir, corresponding to Latin tōnsus.

Adjective

tuso (feminine tusa, masculine plural tusos, feminine plural tusas)

1. docked, cropped (tailless, short-tailed)
2. (Colombia) pockmarked

Derived terms

• tusar

Etymology 2

Possibly onomatopoetic.

Noun

tuso m (plural tusos, feminine tusa, feminine plural tusas)

1. (colloquial) dog

Interjection

tuso

1. /ʘ/, tsch (a word or sound used to call or get the attention of a dog)

Etymology 3

Verb

tuso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tusar

Further reading

• “tuso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtuso/ [ˈt̪uː.so]
• Rhymes: -uso
• Syllabification: tu‧so

Adjective

tuso (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐᜓ)

1. sly; crafty; deceitful

   Synonyms: madaya, mapanlinlang, sukaron, suwitik, higad, buwaya

2. astute; cunning; clever

   Synonyms: matalino, astuto

Derived terms

• katusuhan
• pagkatuso
• patuso

Anagrams

• suot, tuos, utos

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.so/

Verb

tuso

1. (intransitive) to make a hole
2. (intransitive) to leak

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuso

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		totuso	fotuso	mituso
2nd person		notuso	nituso
3rd person	masculine	otuso	ituso yotuso (archaic)
	feminine	motuso
	neuter	ituso

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with, if not derived from, Ternate tuso (“having holes, to make a hole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪u.s̪o/

Noun

tuso

1. a hole
2. an orifice

   mudefete do tuso ― nostril (literally, “the hole of the nose”)

   gua do tuso ― anus (literally, “the hole of the buttocks”)

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics