ursa

From urso +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): [ˈursa]
• Rhymes: -ursa
• Hyphenation: ur‧sa

ursa (accusative singular ursan, plural ursaj, accusative plural ursajn)

1. bearish, ursine (of or relating to bears)
2. (figuratively) awkward, clumsy

   Synonym: mallerta

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈʊɾˠsˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɾˠsˠə/

ursa f (genitive singular ursan, nominative plural ursanacha)

1. Alternative form of ursain (“doorjamb”)

Feminine of ursus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈur.sa/, [ˈʊrs̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.sa/, [ˈursä]

ursa f (genitive ursae); first declension

1. a she-bear, female bear
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.17.12:

     Expedit magis ursae occurrere raptīs fētibus, quam fatuō cōnfīdentī in stultitiā suā.

     It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.: 1752 CE)

First-declension noun.

• Ursa major
• Ursa minor
• ursīnus
• Ursula

• “ursa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ursa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ursa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Hyphenation: ur‧sa

ursa f (plural ursas)

1. female equivalent of urso; she-bear

• uorsa (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)

From Latin ursa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).

ursa f (plural ursas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) female bear

• urs

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *uʀsa. Compare Indonesian rusa and Tagalog usa.

ursa

1. deer