usso – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of usso

Noun: usso
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular musso
Plural mussos

Sample Sentences

  • E vinha encima de hũa muito grande azemolla que pera ysso se buscou vestida de pelles de ussos e tam natural, que cuidavam que era usso com hũa sela e guarniçam d' estranha maneira; (And it came above a very large beast of burden, dressed with bear fur and so natural that it was believed that it was a bear with a strange saddle and harness.) [1554, Garcia de Resende, “De como el-rey deu sua amostra, e do grande estado e riqueza e invenções que trazia” (chapter CXXVIII), in Vida e Feitos D' El-Rey Dom João Segundo:]
  • Cõ tudo reſpondeu David, que ſim podia, porque elle tinha experimentado as ſuas forças com os Uſſos, & os Leoẽs, aos quaes despedaçava, & matava, & o mesmo faria ao Gigante […] (Nevertheless David answer that he could, because he tried his forces with the Bears, and the Lions, who he shatter and killed, and he would do the same to the Giant […]) [1690, António Vieira, Sermoens, sexta parte, Officina de Miguel Deslandes, pages 304–305:]
  • […] & achando a terra povoada de Uſſos, que deſtríão as colmeas, fizerão delles montarias, & os matàrão, […] ([…] and finding the land inhabited by Bears that destroyed the beehives, they made them venery and kill them […]) [1706–1712, António Carvalho da Costa, Corografia portugueza, e descripçam topografica do famoso reyno de Portugal, page 464:]
  • Ajuntandose tambem o milagre de dous Ussos, de que a Virgem Senhora nossa o livrara andando a caça. (Also adding the miracle of two Bears that Our Virgin Lady saved him from when hunting.) [1806, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Collecção dos principaes auctores da historia portugueza, volumes 8–9, Tipografia da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, page 422:]
  • […], aconteceo pois hum dia que correndo ao longo do mar hum bravo Usso, […] ([…] , one day was running alongside the sea a brave bear, […]) [1867, Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Memorial das Proezas da Segunda Tavola Redonda, 2nd edition, Tipografia do Panorama, page 214:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos
3. Proto-Italic *orsos
4. Latin ursus
5. Old Galician-Portuguese usso
6. Portuguese usso
7. From Old Galician-Portuguese usso, from Vulgar Latin *ussus (“bear”), from Latin ursus (“bear”). Displaced by urso.
8. Cognate with Galician and Spanish oso. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'usso', Latin Nouns 'ursus'.

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