English

hosta

Hosta comes from mul Hosta.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Formed from Host + -a

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis ‘master of guests’

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes ‘a host’

Old French oste ‘innkeeper’

Middle English hoste

English Host

Named after Nicolaus Thomas Host, Croatian-Austrian botanist.

Every English word from mul Hosta

noun Any of several herbaceous Asiatic plants of the genus Hosta.

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