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

Hyphenated as

os‧so

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈo.su/

Etymology

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