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Yes. The word osculum is a Scrabble US word. The word osculum is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word osculum is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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7-letter words (2 found)

LUCUMOS,OSCULUM,

6-letter words (4 found)

LOCUMS,LUCUMO,MUCOUS,OCULUS,

5-letter words (9 found)

CLOUS,COMUS,CULMS,CUSUM,LOCUM,LOCUS,MOULS,MUCUS,SOLUM,

4-letter words (21 found)

CLOU,COLS,COMS,CULM,CUMS,LOUS,LUMS,MOCS,MOLS,MOUS,MUSO,OLMS,SCUL,SCUM,SLUM,SOUL,SOUM,SULU,SUMO,ULUS,UMUS,

3-letter words (22 found)

COL,COS,CUM,LOS,LOU,LUM,MOC,MOL,MOS,MOU,MUS,OLM,OMS,OUS,SOC,SOL,SOM,SOU,SUM,ULU,UMS,UMU,

2-letter words (9 found)

LO,MO,MU,OM,OS,OU,SO,UM,US,

You can make 67 words from osculum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of osculum

osculum

Etymology

From Latin ōsculum (“little mouth”).

Noun

osculum (plural oscula)

  1. (chiefly zoology) A small opening or orifice. [from 18th c.]
  2. (zoology, obsolete) One of the suckers on the head of a tapeworm.
  3. (zoology) The main opening in a sponge from which water is expelled.
    • 2012, Sally P. Lees, April Hill, The Physiology and Molecular Biology of Sponge Tissues, Mikel A. Becerro, Maria J. Uriz, Manuel Maldonado, Xavier Turon (editors), Michael Lesser (series editor), Advances in Marine Biology 62: Advances in Sponge Science, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 30,
      Oscula are also thought to arise initially from a single porocyte (Weissenfels, 1980), but how they coordinate with other porocytes to form a larger osculum is still unclear.

Derived terms

  • osculum infame

Translations

Anagrams

  • lucumos, musculo-

Latin

Alternative forms

  • ausculum (hypercorrect)

Etymology

From ōs (“mouth”) +‎ -culum (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoːs.ku.lum/, [ˈoːs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈos.ku.lum/, [ˈɔskulum]

Noun

ōsculum n (genitive ōsculī); second declension

  1. a kiss
  2. a little mouth

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms

  • (kiss): bāsium n, suāvium n

Descendants

  • → English: osculum
  • → French: oscule
  • → Italian: osculo
  • Romanian: uști
  • → Portuguese: ósculo
  • → Spanish: ósculo

See also

  • ōs

References

  • “osculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “osculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • osculum 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)
  • osculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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