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From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.

ossu m (plural osse)

1. (anatomy) bone

• “ossu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From os +‎ -u.

• IPA(key): /ɔ.sy/

ossu (feminine ossue, masculine plural ossus, feminine plural ossues)

1. boney; big-boned

• “ossu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

ossu

1. Rōmaji transcription of おっす

From Latin ossum, from os. Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Spanish hueso.

ossu m (plural ossos)

1. bone

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.

• IPA(key): /ˈɔs.su/
• Hyphenation: os‧su

ossu m (plural ossa)

1. (anatomy) bone
2. (botany) stone, pit (in fruits)

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [_Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland_] – map 90: “le ossa; un osso” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868), “ossu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2855
• Macaluso Storaci, Sebastiano (1875), “ossu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano e italiano-siciliano (in Italian), page 220