urso

Borrowed from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos. Compare French ours, Italian orso, Spanish oso, Portuguese urso, Romanian urs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈurso/

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• Rhymes: -urso
• Hyphenation: ur‧so

urso (accusative singular urson, plural ursoj, accusative plural ursojn)

1. bear

• karnomanĝulo (“a carnivore”)

• virurso (“male bear”)
• ursido (“bear cub”)
• ursino (“female bear”)

• ursaro (“a sleuth of bears”)

• Granda Urso
• Malgranda Urso
• ursa

From English urson.

• IPA^(key): /ˈurso/, [ˈurs̠o̞]
• Rhymes: -urso
• Syllabification^(key): ur‧so
• Hyphenation^(key): ur‧so

urso

1. North American porcupine, Canadian porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum

   Synonym: (dated) kanadanpuupiikkisika

Borrowed from Esperanto urso, Italian orso, French ours, Spanish oso and English ursid, all ultimately from Latin ursus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.so/

urso (plural ursi)

1. bear

• ursino (“female bear”)
• ursulo (“male bear”)
• uryuno (“bear cub”)

Borrowed from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾ.so/

urso (plural ursos)

1. bear
   • 1958, Science News, page 404:

     In le passato, un maximo annual de 50 ursos polar esseva occidite per chassatores human. In 1957, le total esseva 206, gratias (o forsan: disgratias) al aeroplano que rende possibile le persecution del ursos mesmo quande illos ha prendite refugio super insulas de glacia flottante.

     In the past, an annual maximum of 50 polar bears had been killed by human hunters. In 1957, the total was 206, thanks (or maybe: no thanks) to the aeroplane that renders the persecution of bears possibile even when they have taken refuge on ice floes.

   • 1967 May, Rodman Wilson, “Bear Meat Trichinosis: Profound Serum Protein Alterations, Minor Eosinophilia, and Response to Thiabendazole”, in Annals of Internal Medicine, volume 66, number 5, page 970:

     Un femina residente de Alaska, de 22 annos de etate, mangiava mal cocite carne de urso in un bizarre tentativa a suicidio.

     A woman, resident of Alaska, 22 years old, ate poorly cooked bear meat in a bizarre suicide attempt.

ursō m

1. dative/ablative singular of ursus

Learned borrowing from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos. Displaced the inherited doublet usso.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -uʁsu, (Portugal) -uɾsu
• Hyphenation: ur‧so

urso m (plural ursos, feminine ursa, feminine plural ursas)

1. bear (a member of the family Ursidae)
2. puss caterpillar (larva of the genus Podalia)

   Synonym: chapéu-armado

3. (figurative) hairy man
4. (figurative) unsociable person, misanthrope

   Synonym: bicho do mato

5. (figurative) individual who is the target of mockery
6. (gay slang) bear

   Antonym: barbie

7. (Portugal, university slang) brilliant student

• “urso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “urso”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “urso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “urso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025