Noun: Mosso
| Singular | Mosso |
| Plural | Mossos |
Sample Sentences
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Even if he draws back from a declaration, many Catalans – including Mossos and civil servants – may decide to not to obey orders from Madrid, and tens of thousands of people could take to the streets to protect key regional government institutions. [2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in the Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like Mosso
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Catalan mosso (“police officer”), ellipsis of mosso d'esquadra, from Old Spanish mozo (“boy, lad”). Doublet of mozo. See: Catalan Nouns '
mosso'.