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  glossa

  noun

  the tongue.
• Glossa
  Glossa

  noun

  Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.

glossa

¹ American  

[glos-uh, glaw-suh] / ˈglɒs ə, ˈglɔ sə /

noun

• glossae,
  plural
• glossas
  plural

1. Anatomy. the tongue.

2. Entomology. one of a pair of median, sometimes fused lobes of the labium of an insect.

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Glossa ² American  

[glaw-suh] / ˈglɔ sə /

noun

1. Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.

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glossa British  

/ ˈɡlɒsə /

noun

1. anatomy a technical word for the tongue

2. a paired tonguelike lobe in the labium of an insect

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• glossal
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• glossae
  plural
• glossas
  plural

Etymology

Origin of glossa

First recorded in 1885–90, glossa is from the Greek word glôssa tongue

Example Sentences

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glossa Glossa

The so-called glossa ordinaria had in Luther's time an authority almost equal to that of the corpus juris itself.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

For in the text, when these words are used: "your wife taken in adultery," a glossa explains the word "taken" as equal to "convicted."

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

The verb to gloss, or gloze, means simply to explain or translate, from Greco-Lat. glossa, tongue; but, under the influence of the unrelated gloss, superficial lustre, it has acquired the sense of specious interpretation.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

The reference to the "glossa of Theotypas" is part of the fiction.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Dondeus says this interpretation is clearly proved by the authority of a glossa in the chapter: Ex litterarum.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

Upper Glossa was both more somber and more enveloping.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2018

Caterina Barbieri, an Italian composer based in Berlin, performed solo and in Upper Glossa, her duo with Kali Malone.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2018

Her series of recordings for the Glossa label has resurrected music by Gottlieb Muffat,Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, Georg Böhm, Giovanni Battista Somis and Richard Jones — none of them exactly household names.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016

The performances are, as one might expect, ravishing, but both sentiments and soundworld are more conventional here than in its masculine equivalent: the latter, recorded in 2010, is also available on Glossa.

From The Guardian ● May 9, 2013

I possess a copy of the Textus biblie cū Glossa ordinaria Nicolai de lyra postilla Pauli Brugēsis Additiōibus Matthie Thoring Replicis, in 6 volumes folio, printed at Basle in the years 1506-8.

From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various