osso

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) bone
2. (masculine, uncountable) bone (material)
3. (figuratively, masculine) a difficulty

Adj

1. (Brazil, colloquial, invariable) difficult
2. (Brazil, colloquial, invariable) annoying

Concepts

bone

🦴

bones

os

mesenchyme

skeleton

skull

💀

inserting

insertion

Synonyms

esqueleto

inserção

implantação

ponto de união entre um músculo

e um

Translations

Knochen

🦴

os

🦴

hueso

🦴

osso

🦴

os

🦴

been

🦵

kemik

🦴

bot

os

κόκαλο

Bein

οστό

عظم

🦴

schonk

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈo.su/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: ossum

Cognate with Spanish: hueso

In summary

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.
Compare Galician óso, Spanish hueso, Catalan, French, and Romanian os, Interlingua, Italian, and Sardinian osso.