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PORTUGUESE · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

osso.

bone

4 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈo.su/Brazil/ˈo.su/Portugal[ˈus]

  1. bone

    masculine
    O cão enterrou um osso.

  2. bone (material)

    masculine · uncountable

  3. a difficulty

    figuratively · masculine
Where this word comes from

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.

adj/ˈo.su/Brazil/ˈo.su/Portugal[ˈus]

  1. difficult

    Brazil · colloquial · invariable

  2. annoying

    Brazil · colloquial · invariable
Where this word comes from

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.

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