alosa

See also: Alosa

English

Noun

alosa (plural alosas)

1. shad

References

• "alosa" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.

Anagrams

• oasal, saola

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin alauda, from Gaulish *alawda (“tuft; skylark”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈlɔ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈlɔ.za]

• Audio:

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Noun

alosa f (plural aloses)

1. shad (fish)

   Synonym: saboga

2. skylark

Synonyms

• (Eurasian skylark): torrudana, terrerol, terrerola, terrola, torredana

Derived terms

• alosa alablanca
• alosa banyuda
• alosa becuda
• alosa comuna
• alosa eurasiàtica
• alosa oriental
• alosa vulgar

Further reading

• “alosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “alosa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “alosa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin alausa, from Gaulish *alawda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlɔ.za/
• Rhymes: -ɔza
• Hyphenation: a‧lò‧sa

Noun

alosa f (plural alose)

1. shad (fish)

Anagrams

• Asola, asola

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈloː.sa/, [äˈɫ̪oːs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈlo.sa/, [äˈlɔːs̬ä]

Noun

alōsa f (genitive alōsae); first declension

1. Alternative form of alausa

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	alōsa	alōsae
genitive	alōsae	alōsārum
dative	alōsae	alōsīs
accusative	alōsam	alōsās
ablative	alōsā	alōsīs
vocative	alōsa	alōsae

Descendants

• Translingual: Alosa

References

• “alosa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "alosa", 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)

Sotho

Verb

alosa

1. to herd

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlosa/ [aˈlo.sa]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: a‧lo‧sa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin alosa.

Noun

alosa f (plural alosas)

1. (biology) alosa, shad

Etymology 2

Noun

alosa f (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) allose

Further reading

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