Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
- n. Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An opening or entrance; a mouth; an os. Specifically — In human anatomy, either opening, uterine or abdominal, of a Fallopian tube or oviduct. These are called respectively ostium uterinum and ostium abdominale.
- n. In zoology: In sponges, the opening of an incurrent canal.
Wiktionary
- n. A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
- n. Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) An opening; a passage.
Etymologies
- Latin ōstium, door, opening, from ōs, mouth; see ōs- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“On the way from the second antechamber, called the ostium, to the atrium itself, Vinicius said, -- "Hast noticed that thee doorkeepers are without chains?”
“Ante ostium similiter suspendunt filtrum opere polimitario variatum.”
“Socius meus accepit missale et crucem, clericus indutus supercilicio accepit thuribulum: sic accessimus ante dominum eius: et leuauerunt filtrum quod pendebat ante ostium vt nos posset videre.”
“Iuxta ostium ad partem mulieris est iterum alia imago cum vbere vaccino, pro mulieribus quæ mungunt vaccas.”
“Cúmque pro cultellis nos diligentissimè scrutati fuissent, et nullatenus inuenissent, intrauimus ostium ab Orientale parte: quia nullus ab”
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
“Acceptisque muneribus duxerunt nos ad ordam siue tentorium ipsius, et instructi fuimus, vt ante ostium stationis ter cum sinistro genu inclinaremus, et caueremus attentè ne pedem super limen ostij poneremus.”
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
“In medio ponitur mensa eius prope ostium stationis, super quam apponitur potus in aureis et argenteis vasis.”
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
“Et quodammodo fabulantur Sarraceni, quod illo quandoque ingrediente cellulam, cellulæ ostium mutatum in ianuam valdè patentem, velut ante palatium, et gloriantur hoc primum miraculum.”
“Ad introitum montis habetur capella, et in illa lapis monumenti quem Ioseph de Arimathea obuoluit ad ostium sepulchri est valde magnus, et est ibidem aliqua pars columnæ flagellationis, ac pars mensæ super quam Dominus vltimò cænauit cum Apostolis, et instituit noui Testamenti sacramentum sui venerandi corporis, et sanguinis.”
“Et quoniam in toto habitaculo nulla est apertura præter paruum ostium, illustratur accedentibus peregrinis pluribus lampadibus, (quarum ad minus vna coram sepulchro iugiter ardere solet) ingressus.”
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