hostorium

hostorium (plural hostoria)

1. Alternative form of haustorium.
   • 1993, Turf Management Digest, page 97:

     Eventually the fungus produces a structure called an infection peg or hostorium.

• 1900, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, A Glossary of Botanic Terms

From hostiō (“I make even”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔsˈtoː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [osˈt̪ɔː.ri.um]

hostōrium n (genitive hostōriī or hostōrī); second declension

1. a strickle (tool used to level grein)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “hostorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hostorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.