ostrea

See also: Ostrea

Latin

ostrea (an oyster)

Alternative forms

• ostreum (rare)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈos.tre.a/, [ˈɔs̠t̪reä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈos.tre.a/, [ˈɔst̪reä]

Noun

ostrea f (genitive ostreae); first declension

1. oyster, mussel

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ostrea	ostreae
genitive	ostreae	ostreārum
dative	ostreae	ostreīs
accusative	ostream	ostreās
ablative	ostreā	ostreīs
vocative	ostrea	ostreae

Derived terms

• ostreārium
• ostreārius
• ostreātus
• ostreōsus
• ostrifer

 

Related terms

• ostrum

Descendants

• Esperanto: ostro
• Old French: oistre
  • Middle French: oistre
    • French: huître
  • Norman: hitre
  • → Middle English: oystre
    • English: oyster
• Italian: ostrica
• Old Galician-Portuguese: ostra
  • Galician: ostra
  • Portuguese: ostra
    • → Catalan: ostra
    • → Spanish: ostra
• Sicilian: òstraca
• Translingual: Ostrea
• → Proto-West Germanic: *ōstrijā (see there for further descendants)

See also

• ostrum

References

• “ostrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ostrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ostrea 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)
• ostrea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.