Latin edit

Etymology edit

hostis +‎ -icus

Adjective edit

hosticus (feminine hostica, neuter hosticum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of or belonging to an enemy, hostile
  2. of a foreigner, strange, foreign

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hosticus hostica hosticum hosticī hosticae hostica
Genitive hosticī hosticae hosticī hosticōrum hosticārum hosticōrum
Dative hosticō hosticō hosticīs
Accusative hosticum hosticam hosticum hosticōs hosticās hostica
Ablative hosticō hosticā hosticō hosticīs
Vocative hostice hostica hosticum hosticī hosticae hostica

Descendants edit

  • Italian: ostico

References edit

  • hosticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hosticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hosticus 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)
  • hosticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.