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os

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Translingual

Symbol

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Ossetian.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin os (“a bone”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɑs/
Rhymes: -ɒs

Noun

os (plural ossa)

(anatomy) Synonym of bone.

Usage notes

Used in anatomical terminology (e.g., Terminologia Anatomica) and sometimes by doctors and surgeons in practice, but seldom used by medical laypeople.

Hyponyms

os breve (short bone)
os irregulare (irregular bone)
os longum (long bone)
os planum (flat bone)
os sesamoideum (sesamoid bone)

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ōs (“the mouth”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɑs/
Rhymes: -ɒs

Noun

os (plural ora)

(anatomy, sometimes botany) An opening or entrance to a passage, particularly one at either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).
Synonym: orifice

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Swedish ås.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɑs/
Rhymes: -ɒs

Noun

os (plural osar)

An osar or esker.

Etymology 4

From o +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊz/
(General American) IPA^(key): /oʊz/
Rhymes: -əʊz

Noun

(rare) Alternative form of o's.

References

“os”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“os”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

SO, S/O, s.o., so, So, So., S&O, s/o, S.O.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch os.

Noun

os (plural osse, diminutive ossie)

ox (castrated bull)

Derived terms

Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lōs, from Latin illōs.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈos/
Rhymes: -os
Syllabification: os

Article

os m pl

Usage notes

The form los, either pronounced as los or as ros, can be found after words ending with -o.
Some dialects use the form els, often shortened to es.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ossum, from os. Compare Romanian os.

Noun

os n (plural oasi or oase)

bone

Derived terms

usos

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan os, from Latin ossum, non-standard variant of os.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɔs]

Noun

os m (plural ossos)

bone

Derived terms

Related terms

ossa
ossari
ossi

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos. Compare French ours, Occitan ors, Spanish oso.

Alternative forms

ós (pre-2016 spelling)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈos]
Rhymes: -os

Noun

os m (plural ossos, feminine ossa)

bear (mammal)

Derived terms

Related terms

ursí
Úrsula

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈos]

Noun

plural of o (“the letter O”)

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse oss (“us”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔs/, [ʌs], [ɒ̽s]

Pronoun

us, objective of vi
(reflexive pronoun) ourselves
(pluralis majestatis) ourself

Etymology 2

Disputed.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oːs/, [oːˀs]

Noun

os c (singular definite osen, not used in plural form)

smoke
reek
fug

Verb

imperative of ose

Daur

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *usun. Compare Mongolian ус (us).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔs/, [ɔs]

Noun

water

References

Henry G. Schwarz, The Minorities of Northern China: A Survey (1984), page 140: 'water' Daur os

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch osse, from Old Dutch *osso, earlier *ohso, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔs/
Hyphenation: os
Rhymes: -ɔs

Noun

os m (plural ossen, diminutive osje n)

ox (castrated bull)

Derived terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: os
Negerhollands: os

Fala

Alternative forms

us (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese os, from Latin illōs.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /os/
Rhymes: -os
Syllabification: os

Article

os m pl (singular o, feminine a, feminine plural as)

(Mañegu) Masculine plural definite article; the

Pronoun

(Mañegu) Third person plural masculine accusative pronoun; them

References

Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[3], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French os, from Old French os, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.

Pronunciation

(singular) IPA^(key): /ɔs/
- Rhymes: -ɔs
(plural) IPA^(key): /o/
- Rhymes: -o
- Homophones: au, aulx, aux, eau, eaux, ho, o, ô, oh (general), haut, hauts (aspirated)
After consonants other than /z/, the plural may alternatively be pronounced like the singular (cf. the same in œufs).
Colloquially, some speakers use the hybrid form /os/ for both singular and plural.

Noun

os m (plural os)

bone
(informal) snag, hitch
Synonyms: hic, accroc, anicroche

Il y a un os. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese os, from Vulgar Latin *los, from Latin illōs, accusative plural of ille (“that”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʊs/
Hyphenation: os

Article

os m pl (masculine singular o, feminine singular a, feminine plural as)

(definite) the

Usage notes

The definite article o (in all its forms) regularly forms contractions when it follows the prepositions a (“to”), con (“with”), de (“of, from”), and en (“in”). For example, con os ("with the") contracts to cos, and en os ("in the") contracts to nos.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

accusative of eles

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese osso. Cognate with Kabuverdianu osu.

Noun

bone

Iberian

Etymology

Can be compared to Proto-Basque *oso (“whole, complete”) and to Basque oso.

Adjective

whole
great

References

Villamor, Fernando (2020) A basic dictionary and grammar of the Iberian language

Irish

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɔsˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʌsˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish oss, from Proto-Celtic *uxsū, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn (“bull”).

Noun

os m (genitive singular ois, nominative plural ois)

(literary) deer
Synonym: fia

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish úas, ós, from Proto-Celtic *ouxsos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-.

Preposition

os (plus dative, triggers no mutation)

over, above

Derived terms

Mutation

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ossum, from os.

Noun

os n (plural ose, definite singular osu, definite plural osele)

bone

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *ōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os. Cognates include Hittite 𒀀𒄿𒅖 (aiš), Sanskrit आस् (ās), Old Irish á, Old English ōr.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈoːs/, [ˈoːs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈos/, [ˈɔs]

Noun

ōs n (genitive ōris); third declension

mouth
Synonym: bucca

Hyponyms: buccula, ōsculum
(transferred sense) (in general) head or face
Synonym: caput

Synonyms: (Vulgar Latin) cara, faciēs, frōns, vultus

ad aliquem ora convertere ― to turn the head or face towards someone
(transferred sense) (in general) facial features, countenance, appearance
(poetic) speech
mouth, lips, opening, entrance, aperture, orifice
beak of a ship
edge of a sword

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

→ English: os

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst. Cognates include Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon), Sanskrit अस्थि (asthi) and Old Armenian ոսկր (oskr).

Alternative forms

ossum, ossu, ossua

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈos/, [ˈɔs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈos/, [ˈɔs]

Noun

os n (genitive ossis); third declension

(literal, anatomy) bone
(figurative) bone as a metaphor for something deep within the body or frame, one’s innermost being or feeling, a generalized physical presence more than a specific anatomical location
1. (transferred sense) hard or innermost part of trees or fruits; heartwood
(figurative) bones, framework or outline of a discourse

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, i-stem).

Derived terms

Related terms

exossātus
ossuārium

Descendants

References

"ōs", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"ŏs", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"ōs", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"os", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
os in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1095.
"os", 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)
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
Dizionario Latino italiano, Olivetti

Middle English

Pronoun

Alternative form of us

Middle French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French os, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.

Noun

os m (plural os)

bone

Descendants

French: os

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /œs/

Pronoun

ös

(personal pronoun, dative, accusative) Alternative form of uns.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /uːs/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse óss. Same as Latin os.

Noun

os m or n (definite singular osen or oset, indefinite plural osar or os, definite plural osane or osa)

an outlet, estuary, river mouth (where a river runs out of a lake, or enters a lake or the ocean)

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

os m (definite singular osen, indefinite plural osar, definite plural osane)

to fume, smoke
to reek, malodorousness

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronoun

obsolete spelling of oss.

Etymology 4

Verb

past tense of ase
imperative of ose

Old Czech

Alternative forms

osě, osa (later)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *osь.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈos/
IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈos/

Noun

os f

axis, shaft

Declension

Descendants

Czech: osa

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ansu, from Proto-Germanic *ansuz (“god, deity”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“engender, beget”). Cognate with Old Norse áss.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /oːs/

Noun

ōs m

a god
the runic character ᚩ (/o/ or /oː/)

Usage notes

The genitive plural ēsa (attested in ēsa gescot “the shot of the ēse”) and names such as Esegar display i-mutation, despite being a u-stem. This is likely a fossilization from an earlier stage between Proto-West Germanic *ansu and early Old English *ons, in which i-mutation was applied to the attested declined forms due to the word’s archaic meaning, rather than its active usage.
The nominative plural likely had the same process from above applied to it as well, in the form of *ēse.
Both i-mutated, and typically-expected forms for each affected declension are provided in the table below:

Declension

U-stem, irregular:

Synonyms

Old French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔs/

Noun

os oblique singular, m (oblique plural os, nominative singular os, nominative plural os)

bone

Descendants

Middle French: os
- French: os

Old Irish

Alternative forms

as, es, is (aberrant Würzburg forms)

Etymology

Hamp derives this from Proto-Celtic *sonts, plural *sontes (whence ot); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts. Copular origin explains the use of independent subject pronouns with this conjunction, which otherwise are usually used with the copula is.

A more traditional theory, assumed by Pedersen and Thurneysen among others, supposes that this is a contraction of ocus (“and”), with the apparent copular behaviour being analogical.

Conjunction

os (third-person plural ot)

disjunctive conjunction

Usage notes

The conjunction takes on the form ot when used with the third-person plural pronoun é and os elsewhere.

Descendants

Middle Irish: os

References

Old Saxon

Noun

os m

Alternative form of as

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔs/
Rhymes: -ɔs
Syllabification: os
Homophone: oz

Noun

os f

genitive plural of osa
Synonym: ós

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese os, from Vulgar Latin *los, from Latin illōs.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: os

Article

masculine plural of o

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:o.

Pronoun

third-person plural direct objective personal pronoun; them
Synonyms: (indirect objective) lhes, eles, (prepositional) elas

Usage notes

Becomes -los after verb forms ending in -r, -s, or -z, the pronouns nos and vos, and the adverb eis; the ending letter causing the change disappears.
After ver: Posso vê-los? ― May I see them?

After pôs: Pô-los ali. ― He put them there.

After fiz: Fi-los ficarem contentes. ― I made them become happy.

After nos: Deu-no-los relutantemente. ― He gave them to us reluctantly.

After eis: Ei-los! ― Behold them!
Becomes -nos after a nasal diphthong: -ão, -am [ɐ̃w̃], -õe [õj̃], -em, -êm [ẽj̃].
Detêm-nos como prisioneiros. ― They detain them as prisoners.
In Brazil it is being abandoned in favor of the nominative form eles.
Eu os vi. → Eu vi eles. ― I saw them.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:os.

Descendants

→ Ambonese Malay: os

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: os

Noun

os m

plural of o

Romagnol

Noun

os m (invariable) (Bassa Romagna)

door

Romanian

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -os

Noun

os n (plural oase)

bone

Declension

Related terms

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ós, úas (“above, over”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔs̪/

Preposition

os (+ dative, no mutation)

(obsolete) over, above

Usage notes

Now used only in the compounds listed below.

Derived terms

os cionn
os ìosal
os làimh

Etymology 2

Eye-dialect spelling of ars.

Verb

Alternative form of arsa used before vowels
"Ial, ial," os a' chailleach ― "Ial, ial," said the old woman

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

ȏsa (Bosnia, Serbia)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *osь.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ôːs/

Noun

ȏs f (Cyrillic spelling о̑с)

(Croatia) axis

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *osь.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɔs]

Noun

os f (relational adjective osový, diminutive oska or osička)

(geometry) axis
axle

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *osь.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /óːs/

Noun

ọ̑s f

axis (geometry: imaginary line)

Declension

Slovincian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔs/
Rhymes: -ɔs
Syllabification: os

Conjunction

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vōs (accusative), vōbīs (dative).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /os/ [os]
Rhymes: -os
Syllabification: os
Homophone: (Latin America) hoz

Pronoun

(Spain) you, to you, for you; dative and accusative of vosotros

Swedish

Etymology 1

Disputed. Possibly related to Latin odor, or alternatively Sanskrit वास (vāsa, “perfume”).

Pronunciation

Noun

os n

(uncountable) fumes, vapors (with a particular odor and slightly suffocating, especially from cooking)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Norse óss.

Noun

os n

a river mouth; the place where a creek, stream or river enters into a lake
indefinite genitive singular of o

Declension

References

os in Svensk ordbok (SO)
os in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
os in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

SO, so

Volapük

Pronoun

(impersonal pronoun) it

Welsh

Etymology

o (“if”) +‎ -s (“him, her, it, them”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔs/
Rhymes: -ɔs

Conjunction

if (used with factual conditionals, i.e., those that are considered likely or plausible)

White Hmong

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔɒ˩/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔap (“duck”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 鴨 (MC 'aep, “duck”).

Noun

os (classifier: tus)

a duck

Etymology 2

Interjection

a final emphatic particle, usually used to express sincerity
Nyob zoo os. ― Hello.

Tuaj os. ― You've come.

Noj mov os. ― Please eat.

References

Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[6], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 4.

os

os

Translingual

Symbol

See also

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Translations

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

Noun

Derived terms

Aragonese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Article

Usage notes

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

Danish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Pronoun

See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

Verb

Daur

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Fala

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation