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Cornish
Pronunciation
Noun
ostes f (plural ostesow)
- hostess
Danish
Noun
ostes c
- indefinite genitive plural of ost
Estonian
Verb
ostes
- des-form of ostma
Noun
ostes
- inessive plural of ost
- Synonym: ostudes
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄστης (óstēs).
Pronunciation
Noun
ostēs m (genitive ostae); first declension
- A kind of earthquake
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
References
- “ostes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ostes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.