Borrowed fromLatinōstium.
ostium (pluralostia)
- A smallopening ororifice, as in a bodyorgan orpassage.
- Any of the smallopenings orpores in asponge.
- Themouth of ariver.
Formed from or cognate withōs(“mouth”).[1]
ōstium n (genitiveōstiīorōstī);second declension
- door
- entrance
- estuary
- mouth (of ariver)
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
- “ostium”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ostium”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "ostium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ostium inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to knock at the door:ostium, fores pulsare
- to open, shut the door:ostium, fores aperire, claudere
- “ostium”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ostium”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^Roberts, Edward A. (2014)A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation,→ISBN, p. 663
