hosae
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed either from Frankish *hosā (“covering for the legs”) or from another Germanic language. Already attested by Isidore of Seville in the sixth century.
Noun
[edit]hosae f pl (genitive hosārum); first declension (Late Latin)
- (plural only) pants, trousers
- (plural only, military) armour that protects the leg, gaiters, greaves
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, plural only.
plural | |
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nominative | hosae |
genitive | hosārum |
dative | hosīs |
accusative | hosās |
ablative | hosīs |
vocative | hosae |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “hosae”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 500
Categories:
- Latin terms borrowed from Frankish
- Latin terms derived from Frankish
- Latin terms borrowed from Germanic languages
- Latin terms derived from Germanic languages
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Latin pluralia tantum
- Late Latin
- la:Military
- la:Clothing