tuso

See also: tusó

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuso/

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• Hyphenation: tu‧so

Noun

tuso (accusative singular tuson, plural tusoj, accusative plural tusojn)

1. cough

Derived terms

• tusi (to cough)

Galician

Verb

tuso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tusir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuso/ [ˈt̪u.so]
• Rhymes: -uso
• Syllabification: tu‧so

Etymology 1

From the irregular old past participle of the verb tundir, corresponding to Latin tōnsus.

Adjective

tuso (feminine tusa, masculine plural tusos, feminine plural tusas)

1. docked, cropped (tailless, short-tailed)
2. (Colombia) pockmarked

Derived terms

• tusar

 

Etymology 2

Possibly onomatopoetic.

Noun

tuso m (plural tusos, feminine tusa, feminine plural tusas)

1. (colloquial) dog

Interjection

tuso

1. /ʘ/, tsch (a word or sound used to call or get the attention of a dog)

Etymology 3

Verb

tuso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tusar

Further reading

• “tuso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtuso/ [ˈt̪uː.so]
• Rhymes: -uso
• Syllabification: tu‧so

Adjective

tuso (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜐᜓ)

1. sly; crafty; deceitful

   Synonyms: madaya, mapanlinlang, sukaron, suwitik, higad, buwaya

2. astute; cunning; clever

   Synonyms: matalino, astuto

Derived terms

• katusuhan
• pagkatuso
• patuso

 

Anagrams

• suot, tuos, utos

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.so/

Verb

tuso

1. (intransitive) to make a hole
2. (intransitive) to leak

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuso
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totuso	fotuso	mituso
2nd	notuso	nituso
3rd	Masculine	otuso	ituso, yotuso†
Feminine	motuso
Neuter	ituso
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with, if not derived from, Ternate tuso (“having holes, to make a hole”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪u.s̪o/

Noun

tuso

1. a hole
2. an orifice

   mudefete do tuso ― nostril (literally, “the hole of the nose”)

   gua do tuso ― anus (literally, “the hole of the buttocks”)

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics