hoste

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See also: hosté, hôte, and høste

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan oste, from Latin hospitem. Cognates include Occitan òste, French hôte (Old French oste), Spanish huésped, Italian ospite.

Pronunciation

Noun

hoste m (plural hostes, feminine hostessa)

  1. guest

Usage notes

  • Hoste is used for a guest who stays overnight, who is lodged for free. For a guest who does not stay overnight (eg, a dinner guest), see convidat.

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

hoste m

  1. vocative singular of host

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hósti (a cough), hósta (to cough), from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *kwas- (to cough).

Pronunciation

Noun

hoste c (singular definite hosten, not used in plural form)

  1. cough

Verb

hoste (imperative host, infinitive at hoste, present tense hoster, past tense hostede, perfect tense har hostet)

  1. cough (push air from the lungs)

Etymology 2

From English host.

Pronunciation

Verb

hoste (imperative host, infinitive at hoste, present tense hoster, past tense hostede, perfect tense har hostet)

  1. (computing, Internet) to host websites

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

hoste

  1. inflection of hossen:
    1. singular past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

French

Noun

hoste m (plural hostes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hôte.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese oste (host, army) (with the h- added back to reflect the Latin etymon), from Latin hostem, accusative singular of hostis (an enemy of the state).

Pronunciation

Noun

hoste f (plural hostes)

  1. host, horde
  2. army

Derived terms

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Latin

Noun

hoste m or f

  1. ablative singular of hostis (enemy)

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French hoste, oste.

Noun

hoste (plural hostes)

  1. host

Descendants

  • English: host

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French hoste, oste.

Noun

hoste m (plural hostes)

  1. host

Descendants

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Inherited from Danish hoste, from Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô

Noun

hoste m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hoster, definite plural hostene)

  1. (onomatopoeia) a cough

Etymology 2

Inherited from Danish hoste, from Old Norse hósta (sense 1), and English host (sense 2). The Old Norse verb is from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną

Verb

hoste (imperative host, present tense hoster, passive hostes, simple past and past participle hosta or hostet, present participle hostende)

  1. (onomatopoeia) to cough
  2. (computing) to host

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô

Noun

hoste m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hostar, definite plural hostane)

  1. a cough
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną

Verb

hoste (present tense hostar, past tense hosta, past participle hosta, passive infinitive hostast, present participle hostande, imperative hoste/host)

  1. e-infinitive form of hosta (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)

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Old French

Pronunciation

Noun

hoste oblique singularm (oblique plural hostes, nominative singular hostes, nominative plural hoste)

  1. Alternative form of oste

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese oste (host, army) (with the -h- added back to reflect the Latin etymon), from Latin hostem (an enemy of the state), from Proto-Italic *hostis (stranger, guest), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (stranger, guest). Compare Galician hoste, Spanish hueste.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: hos‧te

Noun

hoste f (plural hostes)

  1. host; army; military troop
  2. herd (a mass of people)
    Synonym: horda

Slovene

Noun

hóste

  1. inflection of họ̑sta:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural