ostia

See also: Ostia

English

Noun

ostia

1. plural of ostium

Anagrams

• IOTAs, Saito, TOISA, iotas, stoai

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hostia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.stja/
• Rhymes: -ɔstja
• Hyphenation: ò‧stia

Noun

ostia f (plural ostie)

1. host (communion wafer)
2. wafer

Interjection

ostia

1. mildly blasphemous expletive

Further reading

• ostia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• astio, osati, ostai, staio, tiaso, tosai

Latin

Noun

ōstia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ōstium

References

• ostia 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)
• “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.

Further reading

• “ostia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014