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English

Etymology

From Middle English chef, borrowed from Old French chief (“leader”), from Vulgar Latin capus (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (English cap (“head covering”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f

Noun

chief (plural chiefs)

2. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. [from 13th c.]
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 4:

     My father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief by both blood and custom.

   All firefighters report to the fire chief.

3. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third. [from 15th c.]
   • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:

     When the Chief is Charged with any figure, in blazon it is said to be "On a Chief".

4. The principal part or top of anything.
5. An informal term of address, sometimes ironic.

   Hey, chief.

Synonyms

• chieftain
• chiefess (female chief)
• See also Thesaurus:boss

Derived terms

Pages starting with “chief”.

Related terms

• captain
• chef
• chieftain

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (ch?fu)
• ? Swahili: chifu

Translations

Adjective

chief (comparative chiefer or more chief, superlative chiefest or most chief)

1. Primary; principal.
2. (Scotland) Intimate, friendly.
   • 2006, James Robertson: The Testament of Gideon Mack, p 324:

     'You’re doing it because she was your friend, not because she was a parishioner, and certainly not because of the Declaratory Articles,' Macmurray said, pushing himself forward on his seat. 'Everybody knows how chief you and she were. It was an unfitting relationship for a minister while she was alive, and it is equally unfitting for you to do her a favour like this now she's dead.'

Translations

Verb

chief (third-person singular simple present chiefs, present participle chiefing, simple past and past participle chiefed)

1. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.
   • 2012, Marquis "Cream" Cureton, When the Smoke Clears (page 268)

     He chiefed on the bud like a pro, taking long deep hits and holding it within until he had inhaled as much of the weed smoke as he could.

See also

• chef

Anagrams

• cheif, fiche, fiché

Middle English

Noun

chief

1. Alternative form of chef

Adjective

chief

1. Alternative form of chef

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chief.

Noun

chief m (plural chiefs)

1. head

Descendants

• French: chef (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Alternative forms

• cap (La Vie de Saint Léger, circa 980)
• chef, cief

Etymology

First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?je?f/

Noun

chief m (oblique plural chiés, nominative singular chiés, nominative plural chief)

1. (anatomy) head
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Le chief li desarme et la face.

     He exposed his head and his face.

2. leader, chief
3. front (foremost side of something)

Descendants

• Middle French: chief
  • French: chef (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: chef
• ? Middle English: chef
  • English: chief
  • Scots: chief
• ? Old Spanish: xefe
  • Spanish: jefe, gefe
    • ? English: jefe
    • ? Cebuano: hepe
  • ? Asturian: xefe
  • ? Galician: xefe
  • ? Portuguese: chefe

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