different between zoster vs hoster

English

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ?????? (z?st?r).

Noun

zoster (countable and uncountable, plural zosters)

1. (countable) An ancient Greek waist-belt for men.
2. (uncountable, medicine) The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.

See also

• chicken pox

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (z?st?r, “girdle”), from ??????? (z?nnumi, “to gird”).

Noun

z?st?r m (genitive z?st?ris); third declension

1. The shingles
2. A kind of sea shrub

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• zoster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Middle English

Noun

zoster

1. (Kent) Alternative form of suster

English

Etymology

host +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??st?(?)

Noun

hoster (plural hosters)

1. (computing, Internet, neologism) A provider of online hosting, especially web hosting.

   Make sure your hoster provides fast FTP access to your files.

   • 2004, Reuters news item at CNet News, 25 September 2004:

     Microsoft sues Web hoster over spam

Synonyms

• hosting company
• web host, webhost

Derived terms

• web hoster, webhoster

Translations

Anagrams

• Rothes, Stoehr, Tosher, hetros, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, throes, tosher

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hoster m

1. indefinite plural of hoste

Verb

hoster

1. present of hoste

Old French

Etymology

See oster. The h is unetymological (no h in the original Latin obst?).

Verb

hoster

1. Alternative form of oster

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.