different between dossier vs osier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dossier.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?s.je?/, /?d?s.je?/, /?d?.si.e?/, /?d?.si.e?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?s.i.e?/

Noun

dossier (plural dossiers)

1. A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.

Translations

Anagrams

• Dosreis

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dossier.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /d???e?/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /d??si?r/
• Hyphenation: dos?sier

Noun

dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)

1. dossier
2. file, physical collection of documentation

Derived terms

• dossierbeheerder
• dossierkennis
• dossiervreter
• strafdossier
• medisch dossier

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: dosir

French

Etymology

From dos (“back(side)”) +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.sje/

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
2. dossier
3. (computing) folder
4. An organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder.
5. (figuratively) case, notably legal

Derived terms

• dosseret m

Gallery

Further reading

• “dossier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dossier.

Noun

dossier m (invariable)

1. dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

Anagrams

• dissero, ordisse, rodessi

Portuguese

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. Alternative spelling of dossiê

Spanish

Alternative forms

• dosier

Noun

dossier m (plural dossieres)

1. dossier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French osier (“basket willow, withy”), from Old French osier, hosier, hosyere (compare Medieval Latin aus?ria (“willow-bed”)), from Frankish *halster (compare Low German Halster, Hilster (“bay willow”)).

Alternatively from Medieval Latin aus?ria (“willow-bed”), from Gaulish *awes? (“riverbed”) (compare Breton aoz (“riverbed”)), from Proto-Celtic *auos (“river”), which could also be present in the French place name Avoise.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???z??/, /?????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o????/

Noun

osier (plural osiers)

1. A kind of willow, Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
2. One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
   • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 188:

     Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.

Derived terms

• red osier dogwood

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Rosie, sorie

French

Etymology

From Old French osier, hosier, hosyere (compare Medieval Latin aus?ria (“willow-bed”)), from Frankish *halster (compare Low German Halster, Hilster (“bay willow”)).

Alternatively from Medieval Latin aus?ria (“willow-bed”), from Gaulish *awes? (“riverbed”) (compare Breton aoz (“riverbed”)), from Proto-Celtic *auos (“river”), which could also be present in the French place name Avoise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.zje/

Noun

osier m (plural osiers)

1. (countable) osier (tree)
2. (uncountable) wicker
3. (tree) willow

Derived terms

Related terms

• oseraie

References

Further reading

• “osier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• seoir, seroi