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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Sranan Tongo oso (house), from English house. Doublet of house and huis.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.soː/
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    osso c (plural osso's, diminutive ossootje n)

    1. (slang) house
      Synonym: huis

    Galician

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    osso m (plural ossos, reintegrationist norm)

    1. reintegrationist spelling of óso

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    • osso” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

    Interlingua

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    Etymology

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    Compare Catalan os, French os, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Sardinian ossu, Spanish hueso.

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    osso

    1. (anatomy) bone

    Italian

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    Etymology

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    From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone), *h₂óst.

    Compare Catalan, French, and Romanian os; Portuguese osso; Corsican, Sardinian, and Sicilian ossu; Spanish hueso.

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    osso m (plural (collective) ossa f or (individual) ossi m)

    1. (anatomy) bone
      bagnato fino all'ossodrenched to the skin
    2. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)
      Synonyms: nocciolo, seme
      ossi di albicoccheapricot stones

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    • The feminine plural ossa refers to the bones of a living being as a whole, i.e. the skeleton or, by extension, the body:
      Mi fanno male tutte le ossa.All my bones are aching.
      Le sue ossa riposano nella tomba di famiglia.His bones are resting in the family tomb.
    • The masculine plural refers to bones considered individually, not as a whole:
      gli ossi delle schienethe backbones
      Il macellaio butta via gli ossi.The butcher throws the bones away.
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    Further reading

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    •   osso on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
    • osso in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
    • osso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
    • osso in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
    • osso in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
    • osso in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
    • osso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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    Latin

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    ossō

    1. dative/ablative singular of ossum

    Old Dutch

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

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    osso m

    1. ox

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    • Middle Dutch: osse
      • Dutch: os
        • Afrikaans: os
        • Negerhollands: os

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    • osso”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

    Old Galician-Portuguese

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    Etymology 1

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    From Latin ossum, popular variant of os (bone), from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone), *h₂óst.

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    osso m (plural ossos)

    1. (anatomy) bone
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    osso m (plural ossos)

    1. Alternative form of usso

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    Old Spanish

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      From Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus.

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      osso m (plural ossos)

      1. bear
        • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 59r:
          Et las dos eſtrellas la que es poſtrimera delas dos q́ ſon en el ombro del oſſo.
          And of the two stars, the one that is the furthest of the two that are the bear's haunch.
        • Idem, 96v.
          […] ⁊ no fazen danno en el logar do ella ſouiere leones ni oſſos. ni otros bestiglos malos
          […] and where it were placed, no lions, bears or other foul beasts would be dangerous.
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      • ossa (female bear)

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      Portuguese

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      Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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      ossos

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      From Old Galician-Portuguese osso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os (bone), from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (bone), *h₂óst.

      Compare Catalan, French, and Romanian os, Interlingua, Italian, and Sardinian osso, Spanish hueso.

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      osso m (plural ossos, metaphonic)

      1. (anatomy) bone
        Holonym: esqueleto
        O cão enterrou um osso.
        The dog buried a bone.
      2. (uncountable) bone (material)
      3. (figuratively) a difficulty
        Synonym: dificuldade

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      osso (invariable)

      1. (Brazil, colloquial) difficult
      2. (Brazil, colloquial) annoying

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      osso m (plural ossos)

      1. Obsolete spelling of oso.