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hueso
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Etymology
From Spanish hueso, from Old Spanish huesso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os.
Pronunciation
Noun
hueso
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish huesso, from Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.
Compare Catalan os, French os, Interlingua osso, Italian osso, Portuguese osso, Romanian os, Sardinian ossu.
Political sense comes from comparing a dog looking for and defending a bone and a politician searching for a position.
Pronunciation
Noun
hueso m (plural huesos)
- (anatomy) bone
- El perro enterró un hueso.
- The dog buried a bone.
- Los adultos tienen 206 huesos.
- Adults have 206 bones.
- (botany) stone, pit (the central part of some fruits, consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer (like those of peach, olive, avocado or mango))
- (politics, Mexico, slang) political position (appointed or elected)
- (Spain, informal) strict person
Derived terms
- a otro perro con ese hueso
- bocado sin hueso
- calado hasta los huesos
- carne sin hueso
- dar con sus huesos
- dar en hueso
- de carne y hueso
- en carne y hueso
- en los huesos
- hasta los huesos
- hueso coxal
- hueso cuboides
- hueso de la cadera
- hueso de santo
- hueso duro de roer (“tough cookie, tough nut to crack”)
- hueso frontal
- hueso grande
- hueso hioides
- hueso innominado
- hueso temporal
- la sin hueso
- perro que no camina, no encuentra hueso
- pinchar en hueso
- quebrantahuesos
Related terms
Further reading
- “hueso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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