hostia

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhos.ti.a/, [ˈhɔs.ti.a]

hostia f (genitive hostiae); first declension

1. sacrifice, offering
2. victim

First-declension noun.

• English: host
• Catalan: hòstia
• Dutch: hostie
• French: hostie
• Italian: ostia
• Portuguese: hóstia
• Romanian: hostie
• Russian: гостия (gostija)
• Spanish: hostia

• 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, 1883–1887)
• hostia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

From Latin hostia (“victim, sacrifice”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔ.stja/

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hostia f

1. host; communion wafer

• komunia

• hostia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin hostia (“victim, sacrifice”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈostja/, [ˈost̪ja]

hostia f (plural hostias)

1. communion, communion wafer, wafer, host (religious token)
2. (vulgar, Spain) a punch or a slap

¡hostia!

1. (vulgar, Spain) jeez (expression of surprise)
2. (vulgar, Spain) fuck!

• ¡hostias!

• ¡joder!
• ¡mierda! (only for negative situations)

• hostiar