hostia

See also: Hostia, hòstia, hóstia, hostią, and Hostią

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰostiyo-, from *ǵʰes- (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhos.ti.a/, [ˈhɔs̠t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈos.ti.a/, [ˈɔst̪iä]

Noun

hostia f (genitive hostiae); first declension

1. sacrifice, offering
2. victim, sacrificial animal
3. (Christianity) host, the consecrated bread

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hostia	hostiae
genitive	hostiae	hostiārum
dative	hostiae	hostiīs
accusative	hostiam	hostiās
ablative	hostiā	hostiīs
vocative	hostia	hostiae

Descendants

• Old French: oiste
  • Middle French: oiste
  • → Middle English: oste, oyst
    • English: host
• → Catalan: hòstia
• → Dutch: hostie
• → Middle French: hostie
  • French: hostie
  • → English: hostie
• → Galician: hostia
• → German: Hostie
• → Icelandic: hostía
• → Greek: όστια (óstia)
• → Italian: ostia
• → Polish: hostia
• → Portuguese: hóstia
• → Romanian: hostie
• → Russian: го́стия (góstija)
• → Sicilian: òstia
• → Spanish: hostia

References

• “hostia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hostia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hostia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hostia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to slaughter victims: victimas (oxen), hostias (smaller animals, especially sheep) immolare, securi ferire, caedere, mactare
    
• “hostia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hostia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

hostia

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hostia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔs.tja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔstja
• Syllabification: hos‧tia
• Homophone: Hostia

Noun

hostia f

1. (Roman Catholicism) sacramental bread, communion bread, communion wafer, Eucharist, host (bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist; before the consecration)

   Synonyms: eucharystia, komunia, komunikant

   Coordinate term: wino mszalne

Declension

Declension of hostia

	singular	plural
nominative	hostia	hostie
genitive	hostii	hostii/hostyj (archaic)
dative	hostii	hostiom
accusative	hostię	hostie
instrumental	hostią	hostiami
locative	hostii	hostiach
vocative	hostio	hostie

Related terms

nouns

• Hostia

 

Further reading

• hostia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• hostia in PWN's encyclopedia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈostja/ [ˈos.t̪ja]
• Rhymes: -ostja
• Syllabification: hos‧tia

Etymology 1

Early borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin hostia (“host, consecrated bread ← victim, sacrifice”).

Noun

hostia f (plural hostias)

1. (Catholicism) communion wafer, host
2. (vulgar, Spain) punch, slap

   Synonyms: golpe, trastazo, bofetada

3. (vulgar, Spain) the shit (the best of its kind)

   Synonyms: leche, polla

   ¡Estas uvas son la hostia!

   These grapes are the shit!

Descendants

• → Cebuano: ostiya

Interjection

¡hostia!

1. (vulgar, Spain) jeez (expression of surprise)

   Synonyms: ¡joder!, (only for negative situations) ¡mierda!

2. (vulgar, Spain) fuck!

Alternative forms

• hostias, ¡hostias!

Derived terms

• a toda hostia
• cagando hostias
• de la hostia
• dejarse de hostias
• echando hostias
• hostiar
• la hostia
• mala hostia
• me cago en la hostia
• ni qué hostias

 

Etymology 2

Verb

hostia

1. inflection of hostiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• ostras

 

Further reading

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