ursa

See also: ursã, Urša, and Ursa

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From urso +‎ -a.

ursa (accusative singular ursan, plural ursaj, accusative plural ursajn)

ursa f (genitive singular ursan, nominative plural ursanacha)

Declension of ursa (fifth declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	ursa	ursanacha
vocative	a ursa	a ursanacha
genitive	ursan	ursanacha
dative	ursa ursain (archaic, dialectal)	ursanacha

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an ursa	na hursanacha
genitive	na hursan	na n-ursanacha
dative	leis an ursa leis an ursain (archaic, dialectal) don ursa don ursain (archaic, dialectal)	leis na hursanacha

Mutated forms of *ursa*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ursa	n-ursa	hursa	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From ursus (“bear”) +‎ -a (feminine suffix).

ursa f (genitive ursae); first declension

a she-bear, female bear
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.17.12:
  Expedit magis ursae occurrere raptīs fētibus, quam fatuō cōnfīdentī in stultitiā suā.
  It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
  (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

First-declension noun.

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

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuʁ.sɐ/ [ˈuh.sɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.sɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈuʁ.sɐ/ [ˈuχ.sɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈuɻ.sa/