glossa
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glossa
- /ˈɡlɒsə/
Rhymes with -ɒsə
Where it comes from
From the Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue”). Doublet of gloss.
noun glossae · glossas
- The tongue, or lingua, especially of an insect. They wished to see what Holy would do with the glossa. “The innocent will tell no lies.” The organ eventually had been divided into nineteen sections, distributed, and ingested. “We swallow your lies and cause them to build our powers.”
- Unintelligible ecstatic speech. This pattern does not hold in the glossas we have examined: [th] occurs where we expect [], as in the “word” kita in our sample text, and [] occurs freely in other American glossas as an independent sound unit,[…]
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title = {glossa},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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