hosticus

Latin

Etymology

hostis +‎ -icus

Adjective

hosticus (feminine hostica, neuter hosticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or belonging to an enemy, hostile
2. of a foreigner, strange, foreign

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	hosticus	hostica	hosticum		hosticī	hosticae	hostica
genitive	hosticī	hosticae	hosticī		hosticōrum	hosticārum	hosticōrum
dative	hosticō	hosticae	hosticō		hosticīs
accusative	hosticum	hosticam	hosticum		hosticōs	hosticās	hostica
ablative	hosticō	hosticā	hosticō		hosticīs
vocative	hostice	hostica	hosticum		hosticī	hosticae	hostica

Descendants

• Italian: ostico

References

• “hosticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hosticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hosticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hosticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.