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oste.

horde (a large number of people or things)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Euskara language

Meaning & usage

noun/os̺te/[os̺.t̪e]
  1. horde (a large number of people or things)

    inanimate
Where this word comes from

Ultimately from Latin hostem, accusative singular of hostis (“enemy, stranger”), from Proto-Italic *hostis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“guest, stranger”).

noun/os̺te/[os̺.t̪e]
  1. back (the side of any object which is opposite the front)

    inanimate
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Basque *bost-, itself a borrowing from Latin post (“behind, after”). The final vowel was back-formed from the derived postposition ostean (“after”).

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