bostia

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Latin

Alternative forms

bustia, bustea

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *bostyā, Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbos.ti.a/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbos.ti.a/,

Noun

bostia f (genitive bostiae); first declension^[1]^[2]

(Middle Latin) small box
(Middle Latin) reliquaire

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bostia	bostiae
genitive	bostiae	bostiārum
dative	bostiae	bostiīs
accusative	bostiam	bostiās
ablative	bostiā	bostiīs
vocative	bostia	bostiae

Derived terms

bostellus

Descendants

Old French: boisse

References

^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “buxida”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 111
^ bostia 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)

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