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os
bone /ˈos/
noun#1278 most common
Example sentences
Câinele roade un os.
The dog is gnawing a bone.
Am un os în gât.
I have a bone stuck in my throat.
S-a înecat cu un os de pește.
He choked on a fish bone.
Corpul uman are peste două sute de oase.
The human body has more than two hundred bones.
Bunica se plânge că o dor oasele când plouă.
Grandma complains that her bones ache when it rains.
Frigul pătrundea până la os în noaptea aceea de iarnă.
The cold cut to the bone that winter night.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | os / osul | oase / oasele |
| Genitive | os / osului | oase / oaselor |
| Accusative | os / osul | oase / oasele |
| Vocative | os | oase |
Word family
ososbony, full of bones
osciorlittle bone (diminutive)
osuarossuary
a (se) osificato ossify
osteoporozăosteoporosis (medical borrowing)
Etymology
Os comes directly from Latin os, ossis, meaning bone, part of the core body vocabulary Romanian kept from Latin without interruption. That Latin word traces back to the Proto-Indo-European root for bone, which also gave Greek its word osteon, the source of English medical terms like osteoporosis. The plural oase reflects an old Latin neuter pattern in which the singular behaves like a masculine noun and the plural like a feminine one, a small but well-known class in Romanian.
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