From Englishboss, from Dutchbaas, from Middle Dutchbaes(“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch*baso(“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-Germanic*baswô, masculine form of Proto-Germanic*baswǭ(“father's sister, aunt, cousin”). Cognate with Middle Low Germanbās(“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisianbas(“master”) (> Saterland FrisianBoas(“boss”)), Old High Germanbasa("father's sister, cousin"; > German Base(“aunt, cousin”)). Doublet of bas.
“bos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Irish
Alternative forms
bas
Etymology
From Old Irishbas, bos(“palm”), from Proto-Celtic*bostā(“palm, fist”) (compare Bretonboz(“hollow of the hand”)), from Proto-Indo-European*gʷosto-, *gʷosdʰo-(“branch”).
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Kristang
Etymology
From Portuguesevós(“ye”), from Old Galician-Portuguesevos, from Latinvōs(“ye”).
Pronoun
bos
you; thou(second-person singular personal pronoun)
See also
References
Ladino
Noun
bosf (Latin spelling, pluralbozes)
Alternative form of boz
Latin
Alternative forms
bovis, bus(rare)
Etymology
Irregular, for the expected **vōs/**ūs, accusative **vom, oblique stem **vov-, from Proto-Italic*gʷōs, from Proto-Indo-European*gʷṓws, which also gave Ancient Greekβοῦς(boûs), Sanskritगो(go) (nominative singular gaúḥ), and Englishcow.
Most likely a borrowing from Sabellic (Oscan-Umbrian), attested as Umbrian bum(acc.sg.), bue(abl.sg.), buo(gen.pl.), buf(acc.pl.) all spelling /bō-/. This was likely motivated by the fact that the expected form would have produced an undesirable homonymic clash: with vōs(“you”) in the nominative and with ovis(“sheep”) in the oblique. It's unclear whether the borrowing included the entire paradigm, or just the initial consonant.
bōsm or f (irregular, genitivebovis); third declension
a head of cattle, a cow or a bull or a steer, an ox
Declension
Third-declension noun (irregular).
The medial /w/ is often found spelled B, normally not spelled in the form boum, and is sometimes lost in the forms bo(v)e and bo(v)ēs.
The ablative singular is once the archaizing bovīd in an inscription.
Synonyms
cornigerapl
iumentum(when used to pull carts); armentum(when used to pull plows)
Hypernyms
iumenta(when used to pull carts); armenta(when used to pull plows)
Hyponyms
taurusm
vaccaf
Derived terms
Descendants
References
“bōs” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bōs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 74
Further reading
“bos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“bos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
bos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
bos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“On Latin bōs”, in laohutiger.wordpress.com, 2012 January 2, retrieved 2021-06-16
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
boss
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /boːs/
Noun
bosn (definite singularboset, uncountable)
garbage, rubbish, waste
straw for or from a strawbed
Further reading
“bos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic*bansaz(“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰendʰ-(“to bind”). Cognates include Old English*bōs, Old Saxon*bōs and Old Norsebáss.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈboːs/
Noun
bōsm
stall, byre
Descendants
Saterland Frisian: Buus
West Frisian: bús
References
Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Romanian
Noun
bosm (pluralboși)
Alternative form of boss
Declension
Sardinian
Alternative forms
vos
Etymology
From Latinvōs, from Proto-Italic*wōs, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European*yū́(“you”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbos/
Pronoun
bos (possessivebostru)
you (plural), ye
Synonyms:bois, bosateros
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic*bosъ.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bôːs/
Adjective
bȏs (definitebȏsī, Cyrillic spellingбо̑с)
barefoot
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic*bosъ.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bóːs/, /bɔ́s/
Adjective
bȍsorbòs (not comparable)
barefoot
Inflection
Further reading
“bos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swedish
Noun
bos
indefinite genitive singular of bo
Verb
bos
passive infinitive of bo
present passive of bo
Synonyms
bebos
Anagrams
obs
Tagalog
Alternative forms
boss
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishboss.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈbos/, [ˈbos]
Noun
bos (Baybayin spellingᜊᜓᜐ᜔)
(colloquial, informal) boss; chief; head
Synonyms:hepe, puno
(colloquial, informal)a male term of address
Derived terms
bosing
Further reading
“boss”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018