oste

• IPA^(key): /os̺te/ [os̺.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -os̺te, -e
• Hyphenation: os‧te

Ultimately from Latin hostem, accusative singular of hostis (“enemy, stranger”), from Proto-Italic *hostis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“guest, stranger”).

oste inan

1. horde (a large number of people or things)

From Proto-Basque *bost-, itself a borrowing from Latin post (“behind, after”). The final vowel was back-formed from the derived postposition ostean (“after”).^[1]

oste inan

1. back (the side of any object which is opposite the front)

• “oste”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “oste”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

oste c

1. indefinite plural of ost

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.te/
• Rhymes: -ɔste
• Hyphenation: ò‧ste

Borrowed from Old French oste (“innkeeper, landlord”), which is from Latin hospitem. From the same Latin source: Italian ospite (a doublet).

oste m (plural osti, feminine ostessa)

1. innkeeper, landlord (proprietor of an osteria)

• ostessa
• osteria

• ospite

From Latin hostem (“enemy, stranger”), from Proto-Italic *hostis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“guest, stranger”).

oste m (plural osti)

1. army or host, especially that of the enemy

   Synonym: esercito

• ostile

• esto, stoe, teso, tesò

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈoːsːte/

ōste

1. inflection of oastit:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

From Latin hospitem, the accusative singular of hospes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.tə/

oste oblique singular, m (oblique plural ostes, nominative singular ostes, nominative plural oste)

1. innkeeper, landlord
2. (by extension) host

• ostel

• → Middle English: hoste
  • English: host
• Middle French: hoste
  • French: hôte
• → Italian: oste