Noun: hoste
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | hoste |
| Plural f | hostes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like hoste
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Latin Nouns '
hostis', Galician Nouns '
hoste', Spanish Nouns '
hueste'.
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