Noun: usso
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | usso |
| Plural m | ussos |
Sample Sentences
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[…] q saventura / A hũ grandusso matar […] ([…] that adventures himself to a big bear kill […]) [13th century, João jograr, [cantiga 1116]; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 1116:]
Nouns inflected like usso
sabado,
estreleyro,
sobaco,
bezerro,
febreyro,
miradoiro,
pescoço,
perigoo,
cavaleiro,
portuguees,
paranho,
parayso,
afazemento,
deserto,
dereito,
sagrado,
elefante,
biscoito,
fevreyro,
diluvio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos
3. Proto-Italic *orsos
4. Latin ursus
5. Old Galician-Portuguese usso
6. From Vulgar Latin *ussus (“bear”), from Latin ursus (“bear”). Cognate with Old Spanish osso (“bear”). See: Latin Nouns '
ursus', Old Spanish Nouns '
osso'.
Verbs referencing "usso"
Galician Nouns
oso, Portuguese Nouns
usso.
Translations