osso – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of osso

Noun: osso
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mosso
Plural mossos; metaphonic
uncountable

Sample Sentences

  • O cão enterrou um osso. (The dog buried a bone.)

Nouns inflected like osso

osso,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese osso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os (“bone”), from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.
2. Compare Galician óso, Spanish hueso, Catalan, French, and Romanian os, Interlingua, Italian, and Sardinian osso. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'osso', Old Portuguese Nouns 'osso', Latin Nouns 'ossum', Galician Nouns 'óso', Spanish Nouns 'hueso'.

Verbs referencing "osso"

Romanian Nouns os, Spanish Nouns hueso, Italian Nouns osso.

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