different between bos vs cattle

English

Noun

bos

1. plural of bo

Anagrams

• BSO, OBs, OSB, Obs, SOB, obs, sob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bos, from Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/

Noun

bos (plural bosse, diminutive bossie)

1. wood, forest
2. bush, shrub
3. bunch, bundle, sheaf, bouquet

Derived terms

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin vos. Cognate to Spanish os and French vous.

Pronoun

bos

1. you (second-person plural direct pronoun)
2. (to) you (second-person plural indirect pronoun)

Synonyms

• tos

Cornish

Alternative forms

• bones

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??z/

Verb

bos

1. to be

Conjugation

Mutation

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bos]

Adverb

bos

1. (literary) barefoot, barefooted

Synonyms

• bosky

Related terms

• bosý

Further reading

• bos in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• bos in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

Possibly from Latin buxus (“box tree”).

Noun

bos m

1. oak tree

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

bos m

1. thigh, hind quarters

Danish

Noun

bos n

1. indefinite genitive singular of bo

Dutch

Alternative forms

• bosch (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/
• Hyphenation: bos
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

bos n (plural bossen, diminutive bosje n)

1. wood, forest

   Zij ging wandelen in de bossen.

   She went walking in the woods.

Noun

bos m (plural bossen, diminutive bosje n)

1. bouquet, cluster, bunch

   Hij bracht een bosje bloemen mee.

   He brought me a bouquet of flowers.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bos
• ? English: bush
  • ? Dutch: bush, bushbush
• ? Indonesian: bos

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek ????? (púxos).

Noun

bos m (plural bos)

1. box (tree)
2. boxwood

Galician

Adjective

bos

1. masculine plural of bo

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese vos. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bo.

Pronoun

bos

1. you (plural second person)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?s]
• Hyphenation: bos

Etymology 1

From Dutch bos (“cluster, bunch”), from Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Noun

bos (first-person possessive bosku, second-person possessive bosmu, third-person possessive bosnya)

1. cluster, bunch.

Etymology 2

From English boss, from Dutch baas, from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-Germanic *baswô, masculine form of Proto-Germanic *basw? (“father's sister, aunt, cousin”). Cognate with Middle Low German b?s (“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisian bas (“master”) (> Saterland Frisian Boas (“boss”)), Old High German basa ("father's sister, cousin"; > German Base (“aunt, cousin”)).

Noun

bos (plural bos-bos, first-person possessive bosku, second-person possessive bosmu, third-person possessive bosnya)

1. boss, leader, head.

Further reading

• “bos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Alternative forms

• bas

Etymology

From Old Irish bas, bos (“palm”), from Proto-Celtic *bost? (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *g?osto-, *g?osd?o- (“branch”).

Noun

bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa)

1. (anatomy) palm of the hand

   Synonym: dearna

2. (hurling) the flattened, curved end of a hurley

Declension

• Dual: dhá bhois

Mutation

References

• "bos" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Kristang

Etymology

From Portuguese vós (“ye”), from Old Portuguese vos, from Latin v?s (“ye”).

Pronoun

bos

1. you; thou (second-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

References

Ladino

Noun

bos f (Latin spelling, plural bozes)

1. Alternative form of boz

Latin

Etymology

Irregular, for the expected **v?s/**?s, accusative **vom, oblique stem **vov-, from Proto-Italic *g??s, from Proto-Indo-European *g??ws, which also gave Ancient Greek ???? (boûs), Sanskrit ?? (go) (nominative singular gaú?), and English cow.

Most likely a borrowing from Sabellic (Oscan-Umbrian), attested as Umbrian bum (acc.sg.), bue (abl.sg.), buo (gen.pl.), buf (acc.pl.) all spelling /b?-/. This was likely motivated by the fact that the expected form would have produced an undesirable homonymic clash: with v?s (“you”) in the nominative and with ovis (“sheep”) in the oblique. It's unclear whether the borrowing included the entire paradigm, or just the initial consonant.

Alternative forms

• bovis, bus (rare)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bo?s/, [bo?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bos/, [b?s]

Noun

b?s m or f (irregular, genitive bovis); third declension

1. a cow, bull, or ox
2. (in the plural) cattle (bovine animals)

Declension

Third-declension noun (irregular).

• The medial /v/ is often found spelled B, normally not spelled in the form boum, and is sometimes lost in the forms bo(v)e and bo(v)?s.
• The dative/ablative plural forms are normally found as b?bus, more rarely as b?bus, and very rarely as bovibus.
• The genitive plural is twice boverum.
• The ablative singular is once the archaizing bov?d in an inscription.

Synonyms

• cornigera pl
• iumentum (when used to pull carts); armentum (when used to pull plows)

Hypernyms

• iumenta (when used to pull carts); armenta (when used to pull plows)

Hyponyms

• taurus m
• vacca f

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “b?s” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “b?s”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 74

Further reading

• bos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “On Latin b?s”, in laohutiger.wordpress.com?^[1], 2012-01-02, retrieved 2021-06-16

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• boss

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?s/

Noun

bos n (definite singular boset, uncountable)

1. garbage, rubbish, waste
2. straw for or from a strawbed

Further reading

• “bos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bansaz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?end?- (“to bind”). Cognates include Old English *b?s, Old Saxon *b?s and Old Norse báss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo?s/

Noun

b?s m

1. stall, byre

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: Buus
• West Frisian: bús

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• vos

Etymology

From Latin v?s, from Proto-Italic *w?s, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *y?? (“you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s/

Pronoun

bos (possessive bostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonym: bois, bosateros

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bô?s/

Adjective

b?s (definite b?s?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. barefoot

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bó?s/, /b??s/

Adjective

b?s or bòs (not comparable)

1. barefoot

Inflection

Further reading

• “bos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Noun

bos

1. indefinite genitive singular of bo

Verb

bos

1. infinitive passive of bo.
2. present tense passive of bo.

Synonyms

• bebos

Anagrams

• obs

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English boss

Noun

bos

1. boss; overseer; master

Synonyms

• masta

Related terms

• bosim

Volapük

Pronoun

bos

1. something

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel (“personal property”), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capit?le, from Latin capit?lis (“of the head”) (whence also capital, from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”)). For the sense evolution, compare pecuniary and fee.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?t'l, IPA^(key): /?kæt(?)l/
• Hyphenation: cat?tle
• Rhymes: -æt?l

Noun

cattle pl (normally plural, singular cattle)

1. Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).

   Do you want to raise cattle?

2. Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
3. (derogatory, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
4. (obsolete, English law, sometimes countable) chattel

   goods and cattle
5. (uncountable, rare) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.
   • a. 1964, Stephen Henry Roberts, The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835–1847,^[5] Melbourne University Press (1964), page 315:

     The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall-natives, and sheep-fat and cattle-steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women.

   • a. 1978, Barry Hannah, “Eating Wife and Friends”, in Airships, Grove Press (1994), ?ISBN, page 137:

     “But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I.

     “I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”

   • 1996 April 3, Emmett Jordan, "Re: AR activist arrested for spreading 'Mad Cow' disease in US", in rec.food.veg, Usenet:

     Believe it or not Big Mac is one of the ultra radicals who provide fast food cattle burgers to interstate vehicles who drive all over the place providing scraps for rats, cats, flies, etc, so that the Mad Cow Disease might spread even faster than it would otherwise do.

   • 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds Don't You Get Any Ideas", in aus.politics and other newsgroups, Usenet:

     If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.

     Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!

Usage notes

For the animals themselves, "cattle" is normally only used in the plural.

• I have fifteen cattle.
• How many cattle?

There is no universally accepted singular generic word for "cattle", although the term cattlebeast is used in some regions, and there is the archaic neat. For many people, only gendered words such as "bull" and "cow" are used for adults, "calf" for the young, etc., though especially children will use "cow" for all three (as in cowboy).

• There are five cows and a calf in that herd of cattle.

Where the gender is unknown, "cow" is sometimes used (although properly a cow is only an adult female).

• Is that a cow in the road?

The phrase "head of cattle" may be used without regard for gender. Chiefly in Indian English, this has also given rise to the compound cattlehead.

• One head of cattle
• He sold 50 head of cattle last year.

Occasionally "cattle" may be found in singular use:

• First I saw the mandible, which looked a bit like a strange-shaped cattle; then I saw the cervical vertebrae, which looked like a horse ("Intact Ottoman 'war camel' found in Austrian cellar", BBC, 2015 April 02)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cattle.

Synonyms

• (domesticated bovine animals): beef, Bos (scientific), bovine, cattlebeast, cattlehead, neat
• (people who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny): sheeple (pejorative)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• Catlet, catlet, cattel, tectal