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4-letter words (1 found)

OSSA,

3-letter words (2 found)

ASS,SOS,

2-letter words (3 found)

AS,OS,SO,

You can make 6 words from ossa according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ossa

ossa sosa ossa sosa ssoa ssoa osas soas oass aoss saos asos osas soas oass aoss saos asos ssao ssao saso asso saso asso

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Definitions and meaning of ossa

ossa

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɒsə

Noun

ossa

  1. plural of os

Anagrams

  • ASOs, SOAs, Sosa, so as

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /osˈsa/, [ʔɔsˈsʌ]
  • Hyphenation: os‧sa

Noun

ossá f 

  1. addition
  2. (mathematics) addition

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin ossa.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ossa f (plural osses)

  1. skeleton; the bones of an animal
    Synonyms: ossada, ossera

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin ursa.

Alternative forms

  • óssa (pre-2016 spelling)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ossa f (plural osses, masculine os)

  1. she-bear, female bear

Further reading

  • “ossa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “ossa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  • “ossa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Estonian

Noun

ossa

  1. illative singular of osa

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of osoite.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈosːɑ/, [ˈo̞s̠ːɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -osːɑ
  • Syllabification(key): os‧sa

Noun

ossa (colloquial)

  1. address

Anagrams

  • saos

Italian

Noun

ossa f

  1. plural of osso

Anagrams

  • asso

Latin

Noun

ossa

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of os

Noun

ossa

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ossum

References

  • ossa 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)
  • ossa”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[3]
  • ossa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ossa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • ossa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • ossa”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ursa, feminine of ursus (bear).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈosa/

Noun

ossa f (plural ossas)

  1. she-bear

Derived terms

  • Ossa Mayor (Ursa Major, the Great Bear)
  • Ossa Menor (Ursa Minor, the Little Bear)

Related terms

  • osso (bear)

Descendants

  • Spanish: osa

Romansch

Noun

l'ossa pl

  1. (Sutsilvan) plural of oss

Source: wiktionary.org