ostiya

Borrowed from Spanish hostia, from Latin hostia (“victim, sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“guest, stranger”) in its root sense of "enemy, stranger," whence also Proto-Germanic *gastiz and Proto-Slavic *gostь.

• Hyphenation: os‧ti‧ya

ostiya

1. communion wafer; the sacramental bread used in the Eucharist; the host

• ostya — superseded

Borrowed from Spanish hostia, from Ecclesiastical Latin hostia.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔostia/ [ˈʔos.t͡ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -ostia
• Syllabification: os‧ti‧ya

óstiyá (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜌ)

1. (Catholicism) communion wafer; host (consecrated bread of the Eucharist)

• “ostiya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018