ossa

¹ American  

[os-uh] / ˈɒs ə /

noun

1. plural of os.

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Ossa ² American  

[os-uh] / ˈɒs ə /

noun

1. a mountain in E Greece, in Thessaly. 6,490 feet (1,978 meters).

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Ossa ¹ British  

/ ˈɒsə /

noun

1. a mountain in NE Greece, in E Thessaly: famous in mythology for the attempt of the twin giants, Otus and Ephialtes, to reach heaven by piling Ossa on Olympus and Pelion on Ossa. Height: 1978 m (6489 ft)

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ossa ² British  

/ ˈɒsə /

noun

1. the plural of os 2

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Example Sentences

An I.N.S. photographer found McCarthy propped up in bed in blue pajamas, swathed in bandages from his tuberositas deltoidea to his ossa metacarpalia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Et postea ossa sua apud Westm’ sepulta fuerunt.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir

We know him as St Bede, the Venerable Bede, as he has been called from the epithet inscribed on his tomb in Durham Cathedral, which bears the words Hac sunt in fossa Bedæ Venerabilis ossa.

From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Hickey, Emily

The bones I am most anxious to obtain, are those of the head and feet, which are said to be among those found in your State, as also the ossa innominata, and scapula.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Scilicet et tempus veniet, cum finibus illis Agricola, incurvo terram molitus aratro, 495 Exesa inveniet scabra robigine pila, Aut gravibus rastris galeas pulsabit inanes, Grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulchris.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund