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6-letter words (1 found)

GLOSSA,

5-letter words (9 found)

GAOLS,GLASS,GLOSS,GOALS,LASSO,SAGOS,SLAGS,SLOGS,SOLAS,

4-letter words (19 found)

ALSO,GALS,GAOL,GOAL,GOAS,GOSS,LAGS,LASS,LOGS,LOSS,OSSA,SAGO,SAGS,SALS,SLAG,SLOG,SOGS,SOLA,SOLS,

3-letter words (17 found)

AGO,AGS,ALS,ASS,GAL,GAS,GOA,GOS,LAG,LAS,LOG,LOS,SAG,SAL,SOG,SOL,SOS,

2-letter words (8 found)

AG,AL,AS,GO,LA,LO,OS,SO,

You can make 54 words from glossa according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of glossa

glossa

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssa, “tongue”). Doublet of gloss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlɒsə/
  • Rhymes: -ɒsə

Noun

glossa (plural glossae or glossas)

  1. (zoology) The tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect.
  2. (phonology) Unintelligible ecstatic speech.

Related terms

  • paraglossa

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡlɔ.sə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈɡlɔ.sa]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glossa.

Alternative forms

  • glosa (archaic)

Noun

glossa f (plural glosses)

  1. gloss (explanatory note)
  2. comment, annotation
    Synonym: comentari
Derived terms
  • glossar
Related terms
  • glossari

Etymology 2

Verb

glossa

  1. inflection of glossar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “glossa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin glossa. Doublet of chiosa.

Noun

glossa f (plural glosse)

  1. gloss (explanatory note)
Related terms
  • glossare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

glossa

  1. inflection of glossare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • glasso, glassò

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa).

Noun

glossa f

  1. tongue

Latin

Alternative forms

  • glōsa
  • gloss. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssa).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡloːs.sa/, [ˈɡɫ̪oːs̠ːä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡlos.sa/, [ˈɡlɔsːä]

Noun

glōssa f (genitive glōssae); first declension

  1. an obsolete, foreign, rare, or otherwise difficult term that requires explanation
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ausonius to this entry?)
    • circa AD 95, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (author), Harold Edgeworth Butler (editor, translator), Institutio Oratoria (1920), book I, chapter i, § 35:
      protinus enim potest interpretationem linguae secretioris, quas Graeci γλώσσας vocant, dum aliud agitur, ediscere et inter prima elementa consequi rem postea proprium tempus desideraturam. et quoniam circa res adhuc tenues moramur, ii quoque versus, qui ad imitationem scribendi proponentur, non otiosas velim sententias habeant sed honestum aliquid monentes.
      He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way and, while he is still engaged on the first rudiments, acquire what would otherwise demand special time to be devoted to it. And as we are still discussing minor details, I would urge that the lines, which he is set to copy, should not express thoughts of no significance, but convey some sound moral lesson. ― translation from the same source
    Synonym: glossēma
    1. (Late Latin) an explanation or interpretation of such a word
      (Can we find and add a quotation of Isidore of Seville to this entry?)
      Synonym: interpretātiō
    2. (Medieval Latin) an explanation added to a passage of text, a gloss
  2. (in the plural, as glossae) a term applied to collections of such words with explanations, a glossary
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Marcus Terentius Varro to this entry?)
    Synonyms: glossārium, glossātūra, glossēmata
    1. (Medieval Latin) a series of glosses assembled into a commentary
  3. (Medieval Latin) a language, dialect, or peculiar idiom
    Synonyms: idiōma, lingua
  4. (Medieval Latin) an image or example (of a thing)
    Synonyms: exemplum, imāgō

Usage notes

  • This word is written in untransliterated Greek in some Classical sources.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Catalan: glossa
  • → Middle English: glosse
    • English: gloss
  • → Middle High German: glōse
    • German: Glosse
  • Italian: chiosa, → glossa
  • → Old French: glose
    • Middle French: glose
      • French: glose
    • → Czech: glosa
  • → Old Irish: glúas
    • Middle Irish: glúais
      • Irish: gluais
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: glosa
    • Portuguese: glosa
  • → Old Spanish: glosa
    • Spanish: glosa
  • → Polish: glosa
  • → Romanian: glosă

References

  • “glossa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 1. GLOSSA 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)
  • 2. GLOSSA 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)
  • glossa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 716/2.
  • “glossa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “glossa” on page 767/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “glossa”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 470/2

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