ostium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ōstium.
Noun
ostium (plural ostia)
- A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
- Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge.
- The mouth of a river.
Anagrams
- timous
Latin
Etymology
Cognate with ōs (“mouth”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoːs.ti.um/, [ˈoːs̠t̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈos.ti.um/, [ˈɔst̪ium]
Noun
ōstium n (genitive ōstiī or ōstī); second declension
- door
- entrance
- estuary
- mouth (of a river)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ōstium | ōstia |
| Genitive | ōstiī ōstī1 | ōstiōrum |
| Dative | ōstiō | ōstiīs |
| Accusative | ōstium | ōstia |
| Ablative | ōstiō | ōstiīs |
| Vocative | ōstium | ōstia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
- (door): iānua
Derived terms
- ōstiātim
Related terms
- ōstiārius
- ōstiolum
Descendants
- Aromanian: ushã, ushi
- → English: ostium
- French: huis
- Italian: uscio
- Padanian:
- Friulian: luš
- Romagnol: ós
- → Italian: ostio
- Ladin: usc
- Occitan: ussa
- Romanian: ușă
- Romansch: isch, esch, üsch
- Old Spanish: uço
- Spanish: uzo
- → Spanish: ostio
- Walloon: ouxh
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ostium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
- to open, shut the door: ostium, fores aperire, claudere
- to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
- “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