# ós
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈos]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)
* Rhymes: -os

### Noun

ós m (plural óssos, feminine óssa)
* Pre-2016 spelling of os (“bear”).

#### Usage notes

* The spelling ós was deprecated in the 2016 spelling reform. The old spelling can still be used for metalinguistic transcriptions, or when the intended meaning is not clear from the context. See Appendix:Catalan orthography.

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* aos

### Etymology

From contraction of preposition a (“to, towards”) + masculine plural definite article os (“the”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔs/

### Contraction

ós m pl (masculine sg ó, feminine sg á, feminine plural ás)
* Alternative spelling of aos

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse óss, from Proto-Germanic *ōsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”), cognate with Old English ōr, Latin ōs (“mouth”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ouːs/

### Noun

ós m (genitive singular óss, nominative plural ósar)
* estuary, mouth of the river

#### Declension

$^1$Rare.

#### Derived terms

* árós
* Blönduós

## Irish
### Etymology 1

Contraction of ó (“since”) + is (“is”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /oːsˠ/, (before é, ea, í, iad and their emphatic equivalents) /oːʃ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ɔːsˠ/, (before é, ea, í, iad and their emphatic equivalents) /ɔːʃ/

#### Conjunction

ós
* since... is
    Ós breá an lá inniu, táimid ag dul go dtí an trá.Since it’s a fine day today, we’re going to the beach.
    ós eisean a rinne é ― since he’s the one who did it

##### Related terms

Present/future :
| | Affirmative | Negative | Interrogative | Neg. inter. |
| Main clauses | is | ní | an | nach |
| Direct relative clauses | is | nach | | |
| Indirect relative clauses | ar, arb$^v$ | nach | | |
| Other subordinate clauses | gur, gurb$^v$ | nach | an | nach |
| Past/conditional |||||
| | Affirmative | Negative | Interrogative | Neg. inter. |
| Main clauses | ba, b’$^v$ | níor, níorbh$^v$ | ar, arbh$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ |
| Direct relative clauses | ba, ab$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ | | |
| Indirect relative clauses | ar, arbh$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ | | |
| Other subordinate clauses | gur, gurbh$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ | ar, arbh$^v$ | nár, nárbh$^v$ |
| Present subjunctive | Present subjunctive | Present subjunctive | | |
| | Affirmative | Negative | | |
| | gura, gurab$^v$ | nára, nárab$^v$ | | |
| Base word | Present/future | Past/conditional |
| cá | cár, cárb$^v$ | cár, cárbh$^v$ |
| cé | cér, cérb$^v$ | cér, cérbh$^v$ |
| dá | | dá mba, dá mb’$^v$ |
| de/do | dar, darb$^v$ | dar, darbh$^v$ |
| faoi | faoinar, faoinarb$^v$ | faoinar, faoinarbh$^v$ |
| i | inar, inarb$^v$ | inar, inarbh$^v$ |
| le | lenar, lenarb$^v$ | lenar, lenarbh$^v$ |
| má | más | má ba, má b’$^v$ |
| mura | mura, murab$^v$ | murar, murarbh$^v$ |
| ó (prep.) | ónar, ónarb$^v$ | ónar, ónarbh$^v$ |
| ó (conj.) | ós | ó ba, ó b’$^v$ |
| trí | trínar, trínarb$^v$ | trínar, trínarbh$^v$ |
$^v$ Used before vowel sounds :

#### Preposition

ós
* Alternative form of ó (used before plural article and before gach)

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse *óss (“river mouth”) or Latin ōs, both from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”).

#### Noun

ós m (genitive singular óis, nominative plural óis)
* (poetic) mouth

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
ós
óis
vocative
a óis
a ósa
genitive
óis
ós
dative
ós
óis
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an t-ós
na hóis
genitive
an óis
na n-ós
dative
leis an ós don ós
leis na hóis :

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ós”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ós”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ós”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

## Old Irish
### Preposition

ós
* Alternative form of úas

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈus/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -us
* Syllabification: ós

### Noun

ós f
* genitive plural of osa
    Synonym: os

## Portuguese
### Noun

ós m pl
* plural of ó

## Romagnol
### Etymology

From Latin ostiu(m) (“door”).

### Noun

ós m (plural ós)
* door

### Further reading

* Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 410