hosae
Latin
Alternative forms
- hossae, hosi, hucia
Etymology
Borrowed either from Frankish *hosā (“covering for the legs”) or from another Germanic language. Already attested by Isidore of Seville in the sixth century.
Pronunciation
- (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) IPA(key): /ˈɔse/
Noun
hosae f pl (genitive hosārum); first declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)
- (plural only) pants, trousers
- (plural only, military) armour that protects the leg, gaiters, greaves
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | hosae |
Genitive | hosārum |
Dative | hosīs |
Accusative | hosās |
Ablative | hosīs |
Vocative | hosae |
Descendants
- Italian: uosa
- Old French: huese, hose, house
- Middle French: heuse
- → Middle English: house, houce
- ⇒ Old French: housel, huesel
- Middle French: houseau, houseaul, housel
- French: houseau
- → English: huseau
- French: houseau
- Middle French: houseau, houseaul, housel
- Old Portuguese: osa
- Galician: osa
- Portuguese: osa
- Old Spanish: huesa
References
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “hosae”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 500