Definitions for Glossa

Glossa glos·sa

Spelling: [glos-uh, glaw-suh]
IPA: /ˈglɒs ə, ˈglɔ sə/

Glossa is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in Glossa (agloss).

Definitions for Glossa

noun

  1. Anatomy. the tongue.
  2. Entomology. one of a pair of median, sometimes fused lobes of the labium of an insect.
  3. Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.

Origin of Glossa

First recorded in 1885-90, glossa is from the Greek word glôssa tongue

Examples for Glossa

The glossa Ordinaria, as it is called, is the best known of these commentaries.

On these place a new pot, pour into it some fornis mentioned above, called by the Romans glossa, otherwise gum arabic.

Late in life he retired to his villa, and there in quiet worked on his great glossa till he died.

The reference to the "glossa of Theotypas" is part of the fiction.

Dondeus says this interpretation is clearly proved by the authority of a glossa in the chapter: Ex litterarum.

Word Value for Glossa
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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