usso

See also: ussō

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• osso, husso

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *orssos

Latin ursus

Old Galician-Portuguese usso

From Vulgar Latin *ussus (“bear”), from Latin ursus (“bear”). Cognate with Old Spanish osso (“bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuso/

Noun

usso m (plural ussos)

1. bear (animal)
   • 13th century, João jograr, [cantiga 1116]; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 1116:

     […] q saventura / A hũ grandusso matar […]

     […] that adventures himself to a big bear kill […]

Descendants

• Fala: osu
• Galician: oso
• Portuguese: usso

References

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “usso”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “usso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “usso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.su/

• Rhymes: -usu
• Hyphenation: us‧so

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *orssos

Latin ursus

Old Galician-Portuguese usso

Portuguese usso

From Old Galician-Portuguese usso, from Vulgar Latin *ussus (“bear”), from Latin ursus (“bear”). Displaced by urso.

Cognate with Galician and Spanish oso.

Noun

usso m (plural ussos)

2. Archaic form of urso.
   • 1554, Garcia de Resende, “De como el-rey deu sua amostra, e do grande estado e riqueza e invenções que trazia” (chapter CXXVIII), in Vida e Feitos D' El-Rey Dom João Segundo:

     E vinha encima de hũa muito grande azemolla que pera ysso se buscou vestida de pelles de ussos e tam natural, que cuidavam que era usso com hũa sela e guarniçam d' estranha maneira;

     And it came above a very large beast of burden, dressed with bear fur and so natural that it was believed that it was a bear with a strange saddle and harness.

   • 1690, António Vieira, Sermoens, sexta parte, Officina de Miguel Deslandes, pages 304–305:

     Cõ tudo reſpondeu David, que ſim podia, porque elle tinha experimentado as ſuas forças com os Uſſos, & os Leoẽs, aos quaes despedaçava, & matava, & o mesmo faria ao Gigante […]

     Nevertheless David answer that he could, because he tried his forces with the Bears, and the Lions, who he shatter and killed, and he would do the same to the Giant […]

   • 1706–1712, António Carvalho da Costa, Corografia portugueza, e descripçam topografica do famoso reyno de Portugal, page 464:

     […] & achando a terra povoada de Uſſos, que deſtríão as colmeas, fizerão delles montarias, & os matàrão, […]

     […] and finding the land inhabited by Bears that destroyed the beehives, they made them venery and kill them […]

   • 1806, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Collecção dos principaes auctores da historia portugueza, volumes 8–9, Tipografia da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, page 422:

     Ajuntandose tambem o milagre de dous Ussos, de que a Virgem Senhora nossa o livrara andando a caça.

     Also adding the miracle of two Bears that Our Virgin Lady saved him from when hunting.

   • 1867, Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Memorial das Proezas da Segunda Tavola Redonda, 2nd edition, Tipografia do Panorama, page 214:

     […] , aconteceo pois hum dia que correndo ao longo do mar hum bravo Usso, […]

     […] , one day was running alongside the sea a brave bear, […]

Etymology 2

Noun

usso m (plural ussos)

1. Archaic form of uso.
   • 1823, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Historias e Memorias Da Academia R. Das Sciencias De Lisboa, volume 8, Tipografia da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, page 37:

     E para quem comprar pera seu usso cada hũa das dictas cousas, nam pagará nada.

     And for those who buy for their own use each one of the said things, will not pay anything.

   • 1867, Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Memorial das Proezas da Segunda Tavola Redonda, 2nd edition, Tipografia do Panorama, page 214:

     […] , arecadou Fidomflor ho usso da lança com que ho tomou pola espadoa calandolhe ao coração, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 3

Verb

usso

1. first-person singular present indicative of ussar