# ossa
## English
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɒsə

### Noun

ossa
* plural of os

### Anagrams

* SAOs, SOAs, Sosa, ASOs, so as

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /osˈsa/ [ʔɔsˈsʌ]
* Hyphenation: os‧sa

### Noun

ossá f
* addition
* (mathematics) addition

#### References

* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

From Latin ossa.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.sə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɔ.sa]

#### Noun

ossa f (plural osses)
* skeleton; the bones of an animal
    Synonyms: ossada, ossera

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin ursa.

#### Alternative forms

* óssa (pre-2016 spelling)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈo.sə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈo.sa]

#### Noun

ossa f (plural osses, masculine os)
* she-bear, female bear
** 2016 October 6, “Un home sobreviu a l'atac d'una ossa i mostra les ferides”, in El Periódico‎:La història d'un home nord-americà que va sobreviure a l'atac d'una ossa dissabte passat a prop de la localitat de Bozeman (Montana, EUA) s'ha convertit en l'últim fenomen viral a la xarxa.The story of an American man who survived an attack by a [she-]bear last Saturday near the town of Bozeman (Montana, USA) has become the latest viral phenomenon on the net.

### Further reading

* “ossa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “ossa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “ossa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

## Estonian
### Noun

ossa
* illative singular of osa

## Finnish
### Etymology

Clipping of osoite.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈosːɑ/, [ˈo̞s̠ːɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -osːɑ
* Syllabification: os‧sa

### Noun

ossa (colloquial)
* address

#### Declension

Possessive forms of ossa (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) :

### Anagrams

* saos

## Italian
### Noun

ossa f
* plural of osso

### Anagrams

* asso

## Latin
### Noun

ossa
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of os

### Noun

ossa
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ossum

### References

* ossa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “ossa”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “ossa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ossa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* “ossa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* “ossa”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin ursa, feminine of ursus (“bear”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈosa/

### Noun

ossa f (plural ossas)
* she-bear
** c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 29v:Et la eſtrella que es en cabo dela oreia delantera dela oſſa mayor a poder ſobreſta piedra ⁊ della recibe la fuerça ⁊ la uertud.And the start that is on the front ear of the Great Bear has power over this stone, and it receives its strength and virtue from it.

#### Derived terms

* Ossa Mayor (“Ursa Major, the Great Bear”)
* Ossa Menor (“Ursa Minor, the Little Bear”)

#### Related terms

* osso (“bear”)

#### Descendants

* Spanish: osa

## Romansch
### Noun

l'ossa pl
* (Sutsilvan) plural of oss