Noun: hueso
Gender: m
Hyphenation: hue‧so
| Singular m | hueso |
| Plural m | huesos |
Sample Sentences
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El perro enterró un hueso. (The dog buried a bone.)
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Los adultos tienen 206 huesos. (Adults have 206 bones.)
Nouns inflected like hueso
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Spanish huesso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.
2. Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Sardinian ossu.
3. Political sense comes from comparing a dog looking for and defending a bone and a politician searching for a position. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
huesso', Old Spanish Nouns '
huesso', Latin Nouns '
ossum', Catalan Nouns '
os', French Nouns '
os', Italian Nouns '
osso', Portuguese Nouns '
osso', Romanian Nouns '
os'.
Verbs referencing "hueso"
Romanian Nouns
os, Italian Nouns
osso, Portuguese Nouns
osso, Asturian Nouns
güesu.
Translations