osteria

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian osteria. Doublet of hostry.

Noun

osteria (plural osterias or osterie)

1. A small local restaurant in Italy.
   • 2015 August 13, Robert Draper, “In Italy, Hiking and Haute Cuisine in the Dolomites”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.

Anagrams

• areítos, otaries, roastie, triaose

Finnish

Noun

osteria

1. partitive singular of osteri

Anagrams

• soratie

Italian

Etymology

From oste +‎ -eria, from Old French oste (“innkeeper, host”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ia

• IPA^(key): /o.steˈri.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: o‧ste‧rì‧a

Noun

osteria f (plural osterie)

1. inn
2. barrelhouse
3. bistro
4. tavern
5. osteria (small restaurant in the countryside)

Descendants

• → English: osteria
• → Polish: austeria
  • → Russian: австе́рия (avstérija)

Interjection

osteria

1. (euphemistic) expletive, often used to replace the mildly blasphemous expletive ostia (“Host, Communion wafer”); blimey!
2. gee

Further reading

• osteria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Asterio, esortai, isotera, osterai, toserai