hosticus

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Latin

Etymology

hostis +‎ -icus

Adjective

hosticus (feminine hostica, neuter hosticum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of or belonging to an enemy, hostile
  2. of a foreigner, strange, foreign

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative hosticus hostica hosticum hosticī hosticae hostica
genitive hosticī hosticae hosticī hosticōrum hosticārum hosticōrum
dative hosticō hosticae hosticō hosticīs
accusative hosticum hosticam hosticum hosticōs hosticās hostica
ablative hosticō hosticā hosticō hosticīs
vocative hostice hostica hosticum hosticī hosticae hostica

Descendants

  • Italian: ostico

References

  • “hosticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “hosticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "hosticus", 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)
  • hosticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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