hosta

Borrowed from translingual Hosta f, from Serbo-Croatian Host +‎ translingual -a f. Named after Nicolaus Thomas Host, Croatian-Austrian botanist.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒstə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊ stə/, /ˈhɑs tə/
• Rhymes: -ɒstə

hosta (plural hostas)

1. Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta.

   Synonyms: giboshi, plantain lily

• hosta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hosta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Shota, sotah, Athos, has to, hoast, HOTAS, shoat, shota, HATOs, oaths

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦosta]

hosta m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of host

• hostet

hosta

1. inflection of hoste:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Inherited from Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną

• IPA^(key): /husta/

hosta (present tense hostar, past tense hosta, past participle hosta, passive infinitive hostast, present participle hostande, imperative hosta/host)

1. to cough

Borrowed from English host

• IPA^(key): /hoʊsta/, /hɔsta/

hosta (present tense hostar, past tense hosta, past participle hosta, passive infinitive hostast, present participle hostande, imperative hosta/host)

1. (computing) to host

• “hosta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną.

hōsta

1. to cough

• Swedish: hosta

• husta

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xvȍstъ. Compare Slovene hosta (“forest”), Czech chvost.

hosta f (Cyrillic spelling хоста)

1. (Kajkavian) forest

   Synonyms: (standard) šuma; (archaic) gvozd

From Proto-Slavic *xvȍstъ. Compare Serbo-Croatian hosta (“forest”), Czech chvost.

• IPA^(key): /xóːsta/

họ̑sta f

1. scrub (3.)
2. forest

• “hosta”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

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From Old Swedish hōsta, probably from the oblique case of Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô.

hosta c

1. a cough (condition/disease)

   Mamma hade fått en envis hosta.

   Mom had contracted a stubborn cough.

• The noun hosta refers to the condition or disease, not to a single cough (see hostning) or bout of coughing (see hostanfall).

• hostanfall

• host
• hostning

From Old Swedish hōsta, from Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną.

hosta (present hostar, preterite hostade, supine hostat, imperative hosta)

1. to cough

• hosta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hosta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hosta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

• hotas

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hosta

1. to rub
2. to massage

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “массажировать, натирать, тереть”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika