Host Definition
- multitude
- server
- Bread of the Last Supper
- wafer
- eucharist
- altar bread
- Communion loaf
- animal
- host body
- host mother
- proprietor
- night club owner
- maitre-d
- manager
- restaurateur
- be a guest at
Origin of Host
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From Old French oste (French: hôte), from Middle Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sourjourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóspot- (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.
From Wiktionary
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From Old French hoste, from Middle Latin hostis (“foreign enemy”) (as opposed to inimicus (“personal enemy”)), cognate with etymology 1.
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Middle English from Old French from Late Latin hostis from Latin enemy ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English host, guest from Old French from Latin hospes hospit- ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Middle English also oist, ost, from Old French hoiste, from Latin hostia (“sacrificial victim”).
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Middle English from Latin hostia sacrifice
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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