osso

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.soː/

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osso c (plural osso's, diminutive ossootje n)

1. (slang) house

   Synonym: huis

osso m (plural ossos, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of óso

• “osso”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025

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

osso

1. (anatomy) bone

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.so/
• Rhymes: -ɔsso
• Hyphenation: òs‧so

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

1. (anatomy) bone

   bagnato fino all'osso ― drenched to the skin

2. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)

   Synonyms: nocciolo, seme

   ossi di albicocche ― apricot stones

• 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 schiene ― the backbones

  Il macellaio butta via gli ossi. ― The butcher throws the bones away.

• 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

• soso

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔs.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔs.so]

ossō

1. dative/ablative singular of ossum

From Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

osso m

1. ox

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

• “osso”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.so/

osso m (plural ossos)

1. (anatomy) bone

• Fala: osu
• Galician: óso
• Portuguese: osso

osso m (plural ossos)

1. alternative form of usso

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “osso”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “osso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoso/

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.

   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 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.

• ossa (“female bear”)

• Spanish: oso, osso (obsolete), joso (New Mexico)
  • → Yaqui: hooso

Inherited 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 Galician óso, Spanish hueso, Catalan, French, and Romanian os, Interlingua, Italian, and Sardinian osso.

• (São Miguel, Azores) IPA^(key): [ˈus]

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• Rhymes: -osu
• Homophone: ouço (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: os‧so

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

osso (invariable)

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

• “osso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “osso”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “osso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “osso”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “osso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “osso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈoso/ [ˈo.so]
• Rhymes: -oso

osso m (plural ossos)

1. obsolete spelling of oso