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noun, masculine

os

/ɔs/

noun, masculine/ɔs/

bone; snag, hitch

Le chien a enterré un os.The dog buried a bone.

Synonyms: hic, accroc, anicroche

Inherited from Middle French os, from Old French os, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.