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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hostia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hos.ti.e/

Noun

hostie f (plural hostii)

1. sacrifice, offering
2. victim, sacrificial animal
3. (Christianity) host, The consecrated bread

Declension

References

• hostie in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology 1

From Latin hostia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?sti

Noun

hostie (plural hosties)

1. (obsolete, Catholicism) the consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host.
   • 1694 August 9, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, Letter XII, in 1845, William Jerdan (editor), Letters from James, Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, &c, to His Sister, Countess of Erroll, and Other Members of His Family, page 40,

     This Hostie* is carryed about the streets in procession : and really it is very fine to see the solemnity.

   • 1725, Gilbert Burnet, The History of the Reign of King Charles II, Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, page 1011,

     But he went to another Prie?t, that lived in the Court, who gave him the pix with an ho?tie in it.

   • 1836, Church of England, Extraordinary Instance of Romish Imposition, The Church of England Magazine, Volume 1, page 349,

     The confessor gave him an hostie,* with a piece of wood, that was, as he pretended, a true piece of the cross, and by these he was to be fortify himself, if any other apparition should come to him, since evil spirits would certainly be chained up by them. […] The friar presented the hostie to them, which gave them such a check, that he was fully satisfied of the virtue of this preservative.

Etymology 2

From hostess +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

hostie (plural hosties)

1. (Australia, informal) An air hostess.
   • 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 25,

     Emma, who is still 2.5 cm under the required hostie height and therefore may never realise her dream, said of her ordeal, ‘I was scared, but I did it for my career.’

   • 2011, Les Hawkins, Great Australian Fly-Fishing Stories, Chapter 20, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, unnumbered page,

     The cute hostie at the check-in for Kamchatka accepted a note the Russian Ambassador in Canberra had given me about excess luggage and gave me a smile rather than a bill.

Hypernyms

• flight attendant

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin hostia.

Pronunciation

Noun

hostie f (plural hosties, diminutive hostietje n)

1. (Christianity) host (consecrated bread / wafer)

Synonyms

• ouwel

French

Alternative forms

• ostie, osti, sti, 'sti (profanity)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hostia. Compare Old French oiste.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?s.ti/

Noun

hostie f (plural hosties)

1. The host used in church.
2. (Quebec) Alternative form of ostie

Further reading

• “hostie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Verb

hostie

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of hostiar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of hostiar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of hostiar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of hostiar.

English

Etymology

hot +? -ie

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?hä.?i/
• Homophone: haughty (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

hottie (plural hotties)

1. (Britain, informal) A hot water bottle.
2. (US, slang) A physically or sexually attractive person.

   Synonym: fittie

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