Where does “glosa” come from?
glosa (French) comes from French gloser, from French glose, from Old French glose, from Medieval Latin glossa, from Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ — tongue; language; tongue.
glosa (French): third-person singular past historic of gloser
Definitions
- third-person singular past historic of gloser
Ancestry of “glosa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | gloser | to annotate, gloss; to ramble on |
| 2 | French | glose | gloss; first/third-person singular present... |
| 3 | Old French | glose | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | glossa | explanation of a difficult word; an obsolete,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | γλῶσσᾰ | tongue; language; tongue |