# osso
## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔ.soː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

osso c (plural osso's, diminutive ossootje n)
* (slang) house
    Synonym: huis

## Galician
### Noun

osso m (plural ossos, reintegrationist norm)
* reintegrationist spelling of óso

### References

* “osso” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Interlingua
### Etymology

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

### Noun

osso
* (anatomy) bone

## Italian
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔs.so/
* Rhymes: -ɔsso
* Hyphenation: òs‧so
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

osso m (plural (collective) ossa f or (individual) ossi m)
* (anatomy) bone
    bagnato fino all'osso ― drenched to the skin
* (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)
    Synonyms: nocciolo, seme
    ossi di albicocche ― apricot stones

#### Usage notes

* 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.

#### Related terms

* disossare
* ossaccio
* ossame
* ossario
* ossatura
* osseina
* osseo
* osserello
* ossetto
* ossicino
* ossicolo
* ossifero
* ossificazione
* ossobuco
* ossoso
* ossuto

### Further reading

* 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

### Anagrams

* soso

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈos.soː/, [ˈɔs̠ːoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈos.so/, [ˈɔsːo]

### Noun

ossō
* dative/ablative singular of ossum

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ohsō.

### Noun

osso m
* ox

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: osse
** Dutch: os
*** Afrikaans: os
*** Negerhollands: os

#### Further reading

* “osso”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

#### Noun

osso m (plural ossos)
* (anatomy) bone

##### Descendants

* Fala: osu
* Galician: óso
* Portuguese: osso

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

osso m (plural ossos)
* Alternative form of usso

### Further reading

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “osso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “osso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *ussus, from Latin ursus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoso/

### Noun

osso m (plural ossos)
* 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.

#### Related terms

* ossa (“female bear”)

#### Descendants

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈo.su/
* (São Miguel, Azores) IPA: [ˈus]
* Rhymes: -osu
* Homophone: ouço (Portugal)
* Hyphenation: os‧so

### Noun

osso m (plural ossos, metaphonic)
* (anatomy) bone
    Holonym: esqueleto
    O cão enterrou um osso.The dog buried a bone.
* (uncountable) bone (material)
* (figuratively) a difficulty
    Synonym: dificuldade

#### Derived terms

* desossar
* ossos do ofício
* roer os ossos

#### Related terms

* ossada
* ossama
* ossame
* ossamenta
* ossaria
* ossário
* ossatura
* ósseo
* ossículo
* ossificação
* ossificado
* ossificar
* ossuário
* ossudo
* ostealgia
* osteálgico
* osteíte
* osteogénese
* osteogenia
* osteografia
* osteologia
* osteólogo
* osteomalacia
* osteometria
* osteopatia
* osteoporose
* osteose
* osteossarcoma
* osteotomia

### Adjective

osso (invariable)
* (Brazil, colloquial) difficult
* (Brazil, colloquial) annoying

### Further reading

* “osso”, in iDicionário Aulete (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 Língua 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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoso/ [ˈo.so]
* Rhymes: -oso

### Noun

osso m (plural ossos)
* Obsolete spelling of oso.