ostia

See also: Ostia

English

Noun

ostia

1. plural of ostium

Anagrams

• IOTAs, Saito, TOISA, iotas, stoai

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin hostia.

Noun

ostia f (plural ostie)

1. host (communion wafer)
2. wafer

Interjection

ostia!

1. Mildly blasphemous expletive

Anagrams

• astio
• osati
• ostai
• staio
• tosai

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) ōstia

1. nominative plural of ōstium
2. accusative plural of ōstium
3. vocative plural of ōstium

References

• ostia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “ostia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ostia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “ostia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

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Spanish

Noun

ostia f (plural ostias)

1. Misspelling of hostia.