ossa

• Rhymes: -ɒsə

ossa

1. plural of os

• ASOs, SOAs, Sosa, so as

• IPA^(key): /osˈsa/, [ʔɔsˈsʌ]
• Hyphenation: os‧sa

ossá f 

1. addition
2. (mathematics) addition

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

From Latin ossa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈɔ.sa]

ossa f (plural osses)

1. skeleton; the bones of an animal

   Synonyms: ossada, ossera

Inherited from Latin ursa.

• óssa (pre-2016 spelling)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈo.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈo.sa]

ossa f (plural osses, masculine os)

1. 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.

• “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

ossa

1. illative singular of osa

Clipping of osoite.

• IPA^(key): /ˈosːɑ/, [ˈo̞s̠ːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -osːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): os‧sa

ossa (colloquial)

1. address

• saos

ossa f

1. plural of osso

• asso

ossa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of os

ossa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ossum

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈosa/

ossa f (plural ossas)

1. 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.

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

• osso (“bear”)

• Spanish: osa

l'ossa pl

1. (Sutsilvan) plural of oss