ostium

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ōstium.

Noun

ostium (plural ostia)

  1. A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
  2. Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge.
  3. The mouth of a river.

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Latin

Etymology

Formed from or cognate with ōs (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ōstium n (genitive ōstiī or ōstī); second declension

  1. door
  2. entrance
  3. estuary
  4. mouth (of a river)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ōstium ōstia
Genitive ōstiī
ōstī1 		ōstiōrum
Dative ōstiō ōstiīs
Accusative ōstium ōstia
Ablative ōstiō ōstiīs
Vocative ōstium ōstia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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References

  • “ostium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ostium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ostium 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)
  • ostium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
    • to open, shut the door: ostium, fores aperire, claudere
  • “ostium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ostium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 663
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