tosse

From Old Norse þurs (“giant, ogre”).

tosse c (singular definite tossen, plural indefinite tosser)

1. simpleton

tosse (imperative tos, infinitive at tosse, present tense tosser, past tense tossede, perfect tense tosset)

1. fool, fool about, fool around

• “tosse” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Latin tussem, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s- (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtos.se/
• Rhymes: -osse
• Hyphenation: tós‧se

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tosse f (plural tossi)

1. cough (condition that causes one to cough)

• colpo di tosse - cough (expulsion of air from the lungs)
• tossicone
• tossire

• Sesto, sesto, soste, steso, tesso

Probably from Danish.

tosse f (definite singular tossa, indefinite plural tosser, definite plural tossene)

1. (derogatory, rare or dated) a stupid, foolish woman

tosse

1. (dialectal, nonstandard) past tense of tykkja

• “tosse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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• Hyphenation: tos‧se

From Old Galician-Portuguese tosse, from Latin tussis (“cough”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s- (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”).

tosse f (plural tosses)

1. cough (expulsion of air from the lungs)
2. (uncountable, familiar) common cold

   Synonyms: (Portugal) constipação, constipação nasal, gripe, nasofaringite, (Brazil) resfriado, rinofaringite

• antitosse
• tosse convulsa
• ver o que é bom para tosse

tosse

1. inflection of tossir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tosse”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tosse”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Old French tous, tos, from Latin tussis, tussem.

• IPA^(key): /tɔs/

tosse m or f (plural tosses)

1. cough

• tossî
• tossaedje