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From urso +‎ -a.

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

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

ursa f (genitive singular ursan, nominative plural ursanacha)

  1. Alternative form of ursain (“doorjamb”)
Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ursa n-ursa hursa not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Feminine of ursus.

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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ursa ursae
Genitive ursae ursārum
Dative ursae ursīs
Accusative ursam ursās
Ablative ursā ursīs
Vocative ursa ursae
  • “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

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

ursa f (plural ursas)

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

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

ursa

  1. deer