Meaning
bone
- pit, stone (of fruit)
In a sentence
Il cane ha trovato un osso in giardino.
The dog found a bone in the yard.
Hai tolto l'osso dalla pesca?
Did you remove the pit from the peach?
Non buttare quell'osso nel piatto, per favore.
Don't throw that bone onto the plate, please.
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| osso | masculine · singular |
| ossa | feminine · plural |
Usage notes
- Use osso for animal or human bones; for fish bones, Italian usually says lisca, not osso.
- For fruit pits, osso is understandable but nocciolo is more common in standard Italian.
- Plural is ossa for body bones in a collective sense, but ossi for individual bones or culinary contexts.
- plural le ossa (feminine)