hosae

Latin

Alternative forms

• hossae, hosi, hucia

Etymology

Borrowed either from Frankish *hosā (“covering for the legs”) or from another Germanic language. Already attested by Isidore of Seville in the sixth century.

Noun

hosae f pl (genitive hosārum); first declension (Late Latin)

1. (plural only) pants, trousers
2. (plural only, military) armour that protects the leg, gaiters, greaves

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	hosae
Genitive	hosārum
Dative	hosīs
Accusative	hosās
Ablative	hosīs
Vocative	hosae

Descendants

• Italian: uosa
• Old French: huese, hose, house
  • Middle French: heuse
  • → Middle English: house, houce
  • ⇒ Old French: housel, huesel
    • Middle French: houseau, houseaul, housel
      • French: houseau
        • → English: huseau
• Old Galician-Portuguese: osa
  • Galician: osa
  • Portuguese: osa
• Old Spanish: huesa

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “hosae”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 500