osseous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin osseus (“bony, (attributive) bone”), from os (“bone”) + -eus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒsi.əs/

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Adjective

osseous (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.
   • 1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York: The MacMillan Company, page 120:

     One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General' — a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson.

   • 2020, Kazerad, Katia: Inquire, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), September 18 2020

     It could be some kind of inception based advertising campaign… make people feel vulnerable so that they want to summon some osseous defenders?

Derived terms

• endosseous
• exosseous
• extraosseous
• immunoosseous
• interosseous
• intraosseous
• nonosseous
• osseous tissue
• perosseous
• preosseous
• supraosseous
• transosseous

Translations

relating to bone

Arabic: عَظْمِيّ (ʕaẓmiyy) Belarusian: касцявы́ (kascjavý), касцяны́ (kascjaný) (especially "made of bone") Bulgarian: ко́стен (kósten) Catalan: ossi (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 骨的 (zh) (gǔ de) Czech: kostní (cs) Dutch: been- (nl), benig (nl), knokig (nl) Finnish: luu- (fi) (consisting of bone tissue), luinen (fi) (made of bone) French: osseux (fr) German: knöchern (de), Knochen- (de) Ido: ostala (io) Kazakh: сүйектік (süiektık) Latin: osseus Macedonian: коскен (kosken) Persian: استخوانی (fa) (ostoxâni) Polish: kostny (pl) Portuguese: ósseo (pt) Romanian: osos (ro) Russian: ко́стный (ru) (kóstnyj), костяно́й (ru) (kostjanój) (especially "made of bone") Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ко̀штан Roman: kòštan (sh) Slovak: kostný (sk) Slovene: kosten Spanish: óseo (es) Ukrainian: кісткови́й (kistkovýj), кістяни́й (kistjanýj) (especially "made of bone")