hoste

Inherited from Old Catalan oste, from Latin hospitem. Cognates include Occitan òste, French hôte (Old French oste), Spanish huésped, Italian ospite.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔs.te]

hoste m (plural hostes, feminine hostessa, feminine plural hostesses)

1. guest

• 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.

• hostal

• “hoste”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “hoste”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦostɛ]

hoste m

1. vocative singular of host

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

• IPA^(key): /hoːstə/, [ˈhoːsd̥ə]

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

1. cough

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

1. cough (push air from the lungs)

From English host.

• IPA^(key): /hovstə/, [ˈhɔwsd̥e]

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

1. (computing, Internet) to host websites

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hoste

1. inflection of hossen:
   1. singular past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

hoste m (plural hostes)

1. obsolete spelling of hôte

• hostesse

From Old Galician-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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔste̝/

hoste f (plural hostes)

1. host, horde
2. army

• estantiga

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “hoste”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “hoste”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “hoste”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

hoste m or f

1. ablative singular of hostis (“enemy”)

Borrowed from Old French hoste, oste.

hoste (plural hostes)

1. host

• hostesse

• English: host

• oost

From Old French hoste, oste.

hoste m (plural hostes)

1. host

• French: hôte

• hostesse

Inherited from Danish hoste, from Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô

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

1. (onomatopoeia) a cough

Inherited from Danish hoste, from Old Norse hósta (sense 1), and English host (sense 2). The Old Norse verb is from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną

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

1. (onomatopoeia) to cough
2. (computing) to host

• “hoste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Inherited from Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô

hoste m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hostar, definite plural hostane)

1. a cough

• kikhoste

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

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

1. e-infinitive form of hosta (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)

• “hoste” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.tə/

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

1. alternative form of oste

From Old Galician-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.

• Hyphenation: hos‧te

hoste f (plural hostes)

1. host; army; military troop
2. herd (a mass of people)

   Synonym: horda

• hostilidade

hóste

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