ostiary

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  1. noun Roman Catholic Church One who is ordained in the lowest of the former minor orders.
  2. noun A church doorkeeper.

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  1. Middle English hostiary, from Latin ōstiārius, doorkeeper, from ōstium, door, from ōs, mouth; see ōs- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. 1 and 2. = French ostiaire = Spanish Portuguese Italian ostiario, from Latin ostiarius, a doorkeeper, Late Latin ecclesiastical a sexton, properly adjective, of a door, from ostium, a door, from os, mouth: see os, oral, etc. Cf. usher, ult. from Latin ostiarius, a doorkeeper. 3. from Middle Latin *ostiarium (?), the mouth of a river, neuter of ostiarius, adjective: see above.
 

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