See also: hosté, hôte, and høste

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan oste, from Latin hospitem. Cognates include Occitan òste, French hôte (Old French oste), Spanish huésped, Italian ospite.

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hoste m (plural hostes, feminine hostessa, feminine plural hostesses)

  1. guest

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  • Hoste is used for a guest who stays overnight, who is lodged for free. For a guest who does not stay overnight (eg, a dinner guest), see convidat.
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Czech

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hoste m

  1. vocative singular of host

Danish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse hósti (a cough), hósta (to cough), from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *kwas- (to cough).

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  • IPA(key): /hoːstə/, [ˈhoːsd̥ə]

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hoste c (singular definite hosten, not used in plural form)

  1. cough

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hoste (imperative host, infinitive at hoste, present tense hoster, past tense hostede, perfect tense har hostet)

  1. cough (push air from the lungs)

Etymology 2

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From English host.

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  • IPA(key): /hovstə/, [ˈhɔwsd̥e]

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hoste (imperative host, infinitive at hoste, present tense hoster, past tense hostede, perfect tense har hostet)

  1. (computing, Internet) to host websites

Dutch

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hoste

  1. inflection of hossen:
    1. singular past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

French

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hoste m (plural hostes)

  1. obsolete spelling of hôte

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Galician

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From Old Galician-Portuguese oste (host, army) (with the h- added back to reflect the Latin etymon), from Latin hostem, accusative singular of hostis (an enemy of the state).

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hoste f (plural hostes)

  1. host, horde
  2. army

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Latin

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Noun

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hoste m or f

  1. ablative singular of hostis (enemy)

Middle English

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Old French hoste, oste.

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    hoste (plural hostes)

    1. host
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    • English: host

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    Middle French

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      From Old French hoste, oste.

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      hoste m (plural hostes)

      1. host

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      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Etymology 1

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      Inherited from Danish hoste, from Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô

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      hoste m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hoster, definite plural hostene)

      1. (onomatopoeia) a cough

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      Inherited from Danish hoste, from Old Norse hósta (sense 1), and English host (sense 2). The Old Norse verb is from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną

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      hoste (imperative host, present tense hoster, passive hostes, simple past and past participle hosta or hostet, present participle hostende)

      1. (onomatopoeia) to cough
      2. (computing) to host

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      Norwegian Nynorsk

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      Etymology 1

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      Inherited from Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô

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      hoste m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hostar, definite plural hostane)

      1. a cough
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      Etymology 2

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      Inherited from Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną

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      hoste (present tense hostar, past tense hosta, past participle hosta, passive infinitive hostast, present participle hostande, imperative hoste/host)

      1. e-infinitive form of hosta (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)

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      Old French

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      hoste oblique singularm (oblique plural hostes, nominative singular hostes, nominative plural hoste)

      1. alternative form of oste

      Portuguese

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      Etymology

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      From Old Galician-Portuguese oste (host, army) (with the -h- added back to reflect the Latin etymon), from Latin hostem (an enemy of the state), from Proto-Italic *hostis (stranger, guest), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (stranger, guest). Compare Galician hoste, Spanish hueste.

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      • Hyphenation: hos‧te

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      hoste f (plural hostes)

      1. host; army; military troop
      2. herd (a mass of people)
        Synonym: horda
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      Slovene

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      hóste

      1. inflection of họ̑sta:
        1. genitive singular
        2. nominative/accusative plural