ostia

See also: Ostia

English

Noun

ostia

  1. plural of ostium

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

From Latin hostia.

Noun

ostia f (plural ostie)

  1. host (communion wafer)
  2. wafer
  3. Mildly blasphemous expletive

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

ostia

  1. nominative plural of ostium
  2. accusative plural of ostium
  3. vocative plural of ostium

References

  • ostia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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)

  1. Misspelling of hostia.
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