ostra

Borrowed from Portuguese ostra, from Latin ostrea.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔs.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔs.tɾa]

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ostra f (plural ostres)

1. oyster

• “ostra”, 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

Inherited from Spanish ostra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈostɾa/, [ˈos̪.t̪ɾa]
• Hyphenation: os‧tra

ostra

1. oyster

Attested since the 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon).

• IPA^(key): /ˈostɾa̝/

ostra f (plural ostras)

1. oyster
   • 1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Iten as ostras eschousas a seis dineiros cada libra. Iten das ostras cascudas quatro a o dineiro.

     Item, open oysters, six diñeiros each pound. Item, oysters with shell, four each diñeiro

• ostreiro

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ostra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “ostra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ostra”, 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), “ostra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ostra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

ostra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of ostrum

ostra f (definite singular ostra, indefinite plural ostrer or ostror, definite plural ostrene or ostrone)

1. definite singular of ostre (non-standard since 2012)
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of ostre

• ōstara

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *Austrā (“Easter”) from Inherited from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ (“Easter”). First attested in the 9th C. CE.

ōstra f

1. Easter, the feast of Easter

• Middle High German: ōstre, ōstere, ōster
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: Oastarn

    Mòcheno: Oastern

  • Central Franconian: Uustere
  • East Central German: Ustern
  • German: Ostern
  • Hunsrik: Oostre
  • Luxembourgish: Ouschteren

• Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), Band VII, Leipzig: Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017, column 132, line 11: “ôst(a)ra, sw. f.”

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.tra/

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• Rhymes: -ɔstra
• Syllabification: os‧tra

ostra

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of ostry

From Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon).

• Hyphenation: os‧tra

ostra f (plural ostras)

1. oyster (mollusk)

• bivalve, molusco

• → Catalan: ostra
• → Spanish: ostra

Borrowed from Portuguese ostra, inherited from Latin ostrea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈostɾa/ [ˈos.t̪ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -ostɾa
• Syllabification: os‧tra

ostra f (plural ostras)

1. oyster

• “ostra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024