hosae

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

hossae, hosi, hucia

Etymology edit

Borrowed either from Frankish *hosā (“covering for the legs”) or from another Germanic language. Already attested by Isidore of Seville in the sixth century.

Noun edit

hosae f pl (genitive hosārum); first declension (Late Latin)

(plural only) pants, trousers
(plural only, military) armour that protects the leg, gaiters, greaves

Declension edit

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	hosae
Genitive	hosārum
Dative	hosīs
Accusative	hosās
Ablative	hosīs
Vocative	hosae

Descendants edit

Italian: uosa
Old French: huese, hose, house
- Middle French: heuse
- → Middle English: house, houce
- ⇒ Old French: housel, huesel
  - Middle French: houseau, houseaul, housel
    - French: houseau
      - → English: huseau
Old Galician-Portuguese: osa
- Galician: osa
- Portuguese: osa
Old Spanish: huesa

References edit

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “hosae”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 500