ostracias

Latin

Alternative forms

• ostracītis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀστρακίας (ostrakías).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /osˈtra.ki.aːs/, [ɔs̠ˈt̪räkiäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /osˈtra.t͡ʃi.as/, [osˈt̪räːt͡ʃiäs]

Noun

ostraciās m (genitive ostraciae); first declension

1. A kind of precious stone, probably the hornstone or chalcedony

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).

	singular	plural
nominative	ostraciās	ostraciae
genitive	ostraciae	ostraciārum
dative	ostraciae	ostraciīs
accusative	ostraciān	ostraciās
ablative	ostraciā	ostraciīs
vocative	ostraciā	ostraciae

References

• “ostracias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ostracias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.