See also: Ostia

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Noun

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ostia

  1. plural of ostium

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin hostia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ostia f (plural ostie)

  1. host (communion wafer)
  2. wafer

Interjection

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ostia

  1. mildly blasphemous expletive

Further reading

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

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Latin

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ōstia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ōstium

References

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  • 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

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Noun

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ostia f (plural ostias)

  1. Misspelling of hostia.

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