bostar

Latin

Alternative forms

• bostārium

Noun

bostar n (Early Medieval Latin)

1. a stall for cows
   • 9th c. AD (manuscript date), Latin-Greek glosses in the Codex Laudunensis 444

     Βουστασιον bostar bouilebouilium

     Βουστασιον [is Greek for] bostar, bovile, bovilium.

References

• bostar 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)
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “bosta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 673