different between ostia vs ostium

English

Noun

ostia

1. plural of ostium

Anagrams

• IOTAs, Saito, TOISA, iotas, stoai

Italian

Etymology

From Latin hostia.

Noun

ostia f (plural ostie)

1. host (communion wafer)
2. wafer

Interjection

ostia!

1. Mildly blasphemous expletive

Anagrams

• astio
• osati
• ostai
• staio
• tosai

Latin

Noun

?stia

1. nominative plural of ?stium
2. accusative plural of ?stium
3. vocative plural of ?stium

References

• ostia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?stium.

Noun

ostium (plural ostia)

1. A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
2. Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge.
3. The mouth of a river.

Anagrams

• timous

Latin

Etymology

Cognate with ?s (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o?s.ti.um/, [?o?s?t?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?os.ti.um/, [??st?ium]

Noun

?stium n (genitive ?sti? or ?st?); second declension

1. door
2. entrance
3. estuary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (door): i?nua

Derived terms

• ?sti?tim

Related terms

• ?sti?rius
• ?stiolum

Descendants

References

• ostium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ostium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ostium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ostium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• ostium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ostium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin