ossum

Latin

Etymology

Popular variant of os (see there for descendants).

Pronunciation

Noun

ossum n (genitive ossī); second declension

  1. bone (dead)
  2. kernel, stone (of a nut, fruit)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative ossum ossa
genitive ossī ossōrum
dative ossō ossīs
accusative ossum ossa
ablative ossō ossīs
vocative ossum ossa

References

  • “ossum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "ossum", 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)
  • ossum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Norse

Determiner

ossum

  1. inflection of várr:
    1. masculine dative singular
    2. masculine/feminine/neuter dative plural
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