tuso

See also: tusó

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuso/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tu‧so

Noun

tuso (accusative singular tuson, plural tusoj, accusative plural tusojn)

  1. cough

Derived terms

Galician

Verb

tuso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tusir

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuso/ [ˈt̪u.so]
  • Rhymes: -uso
  • Syllabification: tu‧so

Etymology 1

From the irregular old past participle of the verb tundir, corresponding to Latin tōnsus.[1]

Adjective

tuso (feminine tusa, masculine plural tusos, feminine plural tusas)

  1. docked, cropped (tailless, short-tailed)
  2. (Colombia) pockmarked
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Possibly onomatopoetic.

Noun

tuso m (plural tusos, feminine tusa, feminine plural tusas)

  1. (colloquial) dog

Interjection

tuso

  1. /ʘ/, tsch (a word or sound used to call or get the attention of a dog)

Etymology 3

Verb

tuso

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tusar

References

  1. ^ az3RGQN”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Further reading

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈtuso/ [ˈt̪uː.so]
  • Rhymes: -uso
  • Syllabification: tu‧so

Adjective

tuso (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐᜓ)

  1. sly; crafty; deceitful
    Synonyms: madaya, mapanlinlang, sukaron, suwitik, higad, buwaya
  2. astute; cunning; clever
    Synonyms: matalino, astuto

Derived terms

  • katusuhan
  • pagkatuso
  • patuso

Anagrams

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtu.so/

Verb

tuso

  1. (intransitive) to make a hole
  2. (intransitive) to leak

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuso
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person totuso fotuso mituso
2nd person notuso nituso
3rd
person
masculine otuso ituso
yotuso (archaic)
feminine motuso
neuter ituso

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with, if not derived from, Ternate tuso (having holes, to make a hole).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪u.s̪o/

Noun

tuso

  1. a hole
  2. an orifice
    mudefete do tusonostril (literally, “the hole of the nose”)
    gua do tusoanus (literally, “the hole of the buttocks”)

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics