different between asiatic vs hosta

Friulian

Adjective

asiatic

1. Asian

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ?si?ticus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Asiatikós).

Pronunciation

Adjective

asiatic m (feminine singular asiatica, masculine plural asiatics, feminine plural asiaticas)

1. Asian

Related terms

• Asia

Romanian

Etymology

From French asiatique, from Latin asiaticus.

Adjective

asiatic m or n (feminine singular asiatic?, masculine plural asiatici, feminine and neuter plural asiatice)

1. Asian

Declension

English

Etymology

Named after Nicolaus Thomas Host, Croatian-Austrian botanist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ho? st?/, /?h?s t?/
• Rhymes: -?st?

Noun

hosta (plural hostas)

1. Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta.

   Synonyms: giboshi, plantain lily

Further reading

• hosta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hosta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Athos, HATOs, HOTAS, Shota, has to, hoast, oaths, shoat, shota

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??osta]

Noun

hosta m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of host

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• hostet

Verb

hosta

1. inflection of hoste:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hw?st?n?.

Verb

h?sta

1. to cough

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: hosta

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• husta

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xv?st?. Compare Slovene hosta (“forest”), Czech chvost.

Noun

hosta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Kajkavian) forest

Synonyms

• šuma (standard)
• gvozd (archaic)

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *xv?st?. Compare Serbo-Croatian hosta (“forest”), Czech chvost.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xó?sta/

Noun

h??sta f

1. scrub
2. forest

Inflection

Further reading

• “hosta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish h?sta, probably from the oblique case of Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hw?stô.

Noun

hosta c

1. a cough (condition/disease)

Usage notes

• The noun hosta refers to the condition or disease, not to a single cough (see hostning) or bout of coughing (see hostanfall).

Declension

Related terms

• hostning
• hostanfall

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish h?sta, from Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hw?st?n?.

Verb

hosta (present hostar, preterite hostade, supine hostat, imperative hosta)

1. to cough

Conjugation

Anagrams

• hotas

Veps

Etymology

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Verb

hosta

1. to rub
2. to massage

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????????????, ????????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika