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English
Noun
ostia
- plural of ostium
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hostia.
Pronunciation
Noun
ostia f (plural ostie)
- host (communion wafer)
- wafer
Interjection
ostia
- mildly blasphemous expletive
Further reading
- ostia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
ōstia
- nominative/accusative/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
Spanish
Noun
ostia f (plural ostias)
- Misspelling of hostia.
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