hostia

Inherited from Spanish hostia (“host”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈostja/, [ˈos.t͡ʃa]
• Hyphenation: hos‧tia

hostia

1. (Christianity) host; consecrated bread

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhɔs.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔs.ti.a]

hostia f (genitive hostiae); first declension

1. sacrifice, offering
2. victim, sacrificial animal
3. (Christianity) host, the consecrated bread

First-declension noun.

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “hostia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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

Learned borrowing from Latin hostia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔs.tja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔstja
• Syllabification: hos‧tia
• Homophone: Hostia

hostia f

1. (Roman Catholicism) sacramental bread, communion bread, communion wafer, Eucharist, host (bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist; before the consecration)

   Synonyms: eucharystia, komunia, komunikant

   Coordinate term: wino mszalne

• “hostia”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• hostia in PWN's encyclopedia

• ostia (noun, interjection, nonstandard), hostias (interjection), ostias (interjection, nonstandard)

• IPA^(key): /ˈostja/ [ˈos.t̪ja]
• Rhymes: -ostja
• Syllabification: hos‧tia

Early borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin hostia (“host, consecrated bread ← victim, sacrifice”). Compare Italian ostia, French ostie.

hostia f (plural hostias)

1. (Catholicism) communion wafer, host
2. (vulgar, Spain) punch, slap

   Near-synonyms: golpe, trastazo, bofetada, piña

3. (vulgar, Spain, with definite article) the shit (the best of its kind)

   Synonyms: la leche, polla

   ¡Estas uvas son la hostia!

   These grapes are the shit!

• → Cebuano: ostiya
• → Tagalog: ostiya

¡hostia!

1. (vulgar, Spain) jeez (expression of surprise)

   Synonyms: ¡joder!, (only for negative situations) ¡mierda!

2. (vulgar, Spain) fuck!

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hostia

1. inflection of hostiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “hostia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025