hoste

See also: hosté, hôte, and høste

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan oste, from Latin hospes, hospitis. Cognates include Occitan òste, French hôte (Old French oste), Spanish huésped, Italian ospite.

Noun

hoste m (plural hostes, feminine hostessa)

guest

Usage notes

Hoste is used for a guest who stays overnight, who is lodged for free. For a guest who does not stay overnight (eg, a dinner guest), see convidat.

Related terms

hostal

References

“hoste” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“hoste”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
“hoste” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“hoste” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɦostɛ]

Noun

hoste m

vocative singular of host

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), hósta (“to cough”), from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *kwas- (“to cough”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hoːstə/, [ˈhoːsd̥ə]

Noun

hoste c (singular definite hosten, not used in plural form)

cough

Verb

hoste (imperative host, infinitive at hoste, present tense hoster, past tense hostede, perfect tense har hostet)

cough (push air from the lungs)

Etymology 2

From English host.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hovstə/, [ˈhɔwsd̥e]

Verb

hoste (imperative host, infinitive at hoste, present tense hoster, past tense hostede, perfect tense har hostet)

(computing, Internet) to host websites

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Verb

hoste

singular past indicative and subjunctive of hossen

French

Noun

hoste m (plural hostes)

Obsolete spelling of hôte

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese oste (“host, army”) (with the h- added back to reflect the Latin etymon), from Latin hostem, accusative singular of hostis (“an enemy of the state”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔste̝/

Noun

hoste f (plural hostes)

host, horde
army

Derived terms

estantiga

References

“hoste” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“hoste” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“hoste” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Latin

Noun

hoste m or f

ablative singular of hostis (“enemy”)

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French hoste, oste.

Noun

hoste (plural hostes)

host

Related terms

hostesse

Descendants

English: host

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French hoste, oste.

Noun

hoste m (plural hostes)

host

Descendants

French: hôte

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hósti (onomatopoeia).

Noun

hoste m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hoster, definite plural hostene)

(onomatopoeia) a cough

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hósta (sense 1), and English host (sense 2).

Verb

hoste (imperative host, present tense hoster, passive hostes, simple past and past participle hosta or hostet, present participle hostende)

(onomatopoeia) to cough
(computing) to host

References

“hoste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.tə/

Noun

hoste m (oblique plural hostes, nominative singular hostes, nominative plural hoste)

Alternative form of oste

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese oste (“host, army”) (with the -h- added back to reflect the Latin etymon), from Latin hostem (“an enemy of the state”), from Proto-Italic *hostis (“stranger, guest”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest”). Compare Galician hoste, Spanish hueste.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.t͡ʃi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɔʃ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.te/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɔʃ.t(ɨ)/

Hyphenation: hos‧te

Noun

hoste f (plural hostes)

host; army; military troop
herd (a mass of people)
Synonym: horda

Related terms

hostilidade

Slovene

Noun

hóste

inflection of họ̑sta:
1. genitive singular
2. nominative/accusative plural