ostium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ōstium. === Noun === ostium (plural ostia) A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage. Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge. The mouth of a river. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === timous == Latin == === Etymology === Formed from or cognate with ōs (“mouth”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈoːs.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔs.ti.um] === Noun === ōstium n (genitive ōstiī or ōstī); second declension door entrance estuary mouth (of a river) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Synonyms ==== (door): iānua ==== Derived terms ==== ōstiātim ==== Related terms ==== ōstiārius ōstiolum ==== Descendants ==== (Note: all forms descend from a Late variant ūstium.) === References === “ostium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ostium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ostium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “ostium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “ostium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ostium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin