urso

See also: Urso

Esperanto

nigra urso

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ursus, French ours, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈurso]

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• Rhymes: -urso
• Hyphenation: ur‧so

Noun

urso (accusative singular urson, plural ursoj, accusative plural ursojn)

1. bear

Hypernyms

• karnomanĝulo (“a carnivore”)

Hyponyms

• virurso (“male bear”)
• ursido (“bear cub”)
• ursino (“female bear”)

Holonyms

• ursaro (“a sleuth of bears”)

Derived terms

• (astronomy) la Granda Urso (Ursa Major)
• (astronomy) la Malgranda Urso (Ursa Minor)
• ursa (“ursine”)

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto urso, Italian orso, French ours, Spanish oso and English ursid, all ultimately from Latin ursus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.so/

Noun

urso (plural ursi)

1. bear

Hyponyms

• ursino (“female bear, bear sow”)
• ursulo (“male bear, bear boar”)
• uryuno (“bear cub”)

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.so/

Noun

urso (plural ursos)

1. bear
   • 1958, Science News, page 404.

     In le passato, un maximo annual de 50 ursos polar esseva occidite per chassatores human. In 1957, le total esseva 206, gratias (o forsan: disgratias) al aeroplano que rende possibile le persecution del ursos mesmo quande illos ha prendite refugio super insulas de glacia flottante.

     In the past, an annual maximum of 50 polar bears had been killed by human hunters. In 1957, the total was 206, thanks (or maybe: no thanks) to the aeroplane that renders the persecution of bears possibile even when they have taken refuge on ice floes.

   • 1967 May, Rodman Wilson, "Bear Meat Trichinosis: Profound Serum Protein Alterations, Minor Eosinophilia, and Response to Thiabendazole", Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 66, No. 5, page 970.

     Un femina residente de Alaska, de 22 annos de etate, mangiava mal cocite carne de urso in un bizarre tentativa a suicidio.

     A woman, resident of Alaska, 22 years old, ate poorly cooked bear meat in a bizarre suicide attempt.

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) ursō m

1. dative singular of ursus
2. ablative singular of ursus

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Portuguese

urso (Ursus arctos arctos)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ursus (“bear”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”). Displaced Old Portuguese usso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.su/
• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.su/, /ˈuχ.su/
• IPA^(key): /ˈux.su/
• IPA^(key): /ˈuh.su/
• Hyphenation: ur‧so

Noun

urso m (plural s, feminine ursa, feminine plural ursas)

1. bear
2. (derogatory, colloquial) unsociable person, misanthrope

Related terms

• ursídeo
• ursinho

Further reading

• “urso” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
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