hoste

Inherited from Old Catalan oste, from Latin hospitem. Cognates include Occitan òste, French hôte (Old French oste), Spanish huésped, Italian ospite.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔs.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɔs.te]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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hoste m (plural hostes, feminine hostessa, feminine plural hostesses)

1. guest
2. host

• Hoste is used for a guest who stays overnight, who is lodged for free. For a guest who does not stay overnight (eg, a dinner guest), see convidat.

• hostal

• “hoste”, 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
• “hoste”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “hoste” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “hoste” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦostɛ]

hoste m

1. vocative singular of host

From Old Norse hósti (“a cough”), hósta (“to cough”), from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *kwas- (“to cough”).

• IPA^(key): /hoːstə/, [ˈhoːsd̥ə]

hoste c (singular definite hosten, not used in plural form)

1. cough

• hosteanfald
• hostesaft
• hostestillende
• hostemedicin
• krillerhoste
• strubehoste
• tobakshoste

hoste (imperative host, infinitive at hoste, present tense hoster, past tense hostede, perfect tense hostet)

1. cough (push air from the lungs)

• host
• hosten
• hoste op med

• hosting

Unadapted borrowing from English host.

• IPA^(key): /hovstə/, [ˈhɔwsd̥e]

hoste (imperative host, infinitive at hoste, present tense hoster, past tense hostede, perfect tense hostet)

1. (computing, Internet) to host websites

• “hoste” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “hoste” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• Audio:

  (file)

hoste

1. inflection of hossen:
   1. singular past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

hoste m (plural hostes)

1. obsolete spelling of hôte

• hostesse

From Old Galician-Portuguese oste (“host, army”) (with the h- added back to reflect the Latin etymon), from Latin hostem, accusative singular of hostis (“an enemy of the state”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔste̝/

hoste f (plural hostes)

1. host, horde
2. army

• estantiga

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “hoste”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “hoste”, 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), “hoste”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

hoste m or f

1. ablative singular of hostis (“enemy”)

Borrowed from Old French hoste, oste.

hoste (plural hostes)

1. host

• hostesse

• English: host

• oost

From Old French hoste, oste.

hoste m (plural hostes)

1. host

• French: hôte

• hostesse

Inherited from Danish hoste, from Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô

hoste m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hoster, definite plural hostene)

1. (onomatopoeia) a cough

Inherited from Danish hoste, from Old Norse hósta (sense 1), and English host (sense 2). The Old Norse verb is from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną

hoste (imperative host, present tense hoster, passive hostes, simple past and past participle hosta or hostet, present participle hostende)

1. (onomatopoeia) to cough
2. (computing) to host

• “hoste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Inherited from Old Norse hósti, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstô

hoste m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hostar, definite plural hostane)

1. a cough

• kikhoste

Inherited from Old Norse hósta, from Proto-Germanic *hwōstōną

hoste (present tense hostar, past tense hosta, past participle hosta, passive infinitive hostast, present participle hostande, imperative hoste/host)

1. e-infinitive form of hosta (in dialects with e-infinitive or split infinitive)

• “hoste” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔs.tə/

hoste oblique singular, m (oblique plural hostes, nominative singular hostes, nominative plural hoste)

1. alternative form of oste

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.

• Hyphenation: hos‧te

hoste f (plural hostes)

1. host; army; military troop
2. herd (a mass of people)

   Synonym: horda

• hostilidade

hóste

1. inflection of họ̑sta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural