Hoseas

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ōsēe (Vulgate spelling)
• Ōsēās

Etymology

Probably an alteration of the earlier Ōsēe (q.v.)—the form used in the Vulgate—chosen for consistency with the Latin names of some other Biblical characters (such as Andreās, Matthiās, and Michaeās) and with its ultimate Biblical Hebrew etymon, הוֹשֵׁעַ (Hoshea'); an intermediate Ancient Greek etymon of the form *Ὡσηᾱς (*Hōsēās) does not occur.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hoːˈseː.aːs/, [hoːˈs̠eːäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈse.as/, [oˈs̬ɛːäs]

Proper noun

Hōsēās m sg (genitive Hōsēae); first declension

1. Hosea (prophet)
   • 1621, Willem van der Codde, Hoſeas Propheta, Ebraice & Chaldaice, cum Duplici Verſione Latina, main title
2. Book of Hosea

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Hōsēās
genitive	Hōsēae
dative	Hōsēae
accusative	Hōsēān
ablative	Hōsēā
vocative	Hōsēā

Descendants

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: Hosea
• → Breton: Hosea
• → Chinese:

  Cantonese: 歐瑟亞 / 欧瑟亚 (au¹ sat¹ aa³), 何西阿 (ho⁴ sai¹ aa³)

  Hakka: 何西阿 (Hò-sî-â)

  Mandarin: 歐瑟亞 / 欧瑟亚 (Ōusèyà, Ōusèyǎ), 何西阿 (Héxī'ā)

  Eastern Min: 訶西 / 诃西 (Hŏ̤-să̤)

  Min Nan: 歐瑟亞 / 欧瑟亚 (Au-sek-a)

• → Czech: Ozeáš
• → Danish: Hosea
• → Dutch: Hosea
• → English: Hosea
• → Estonian: Hoosea
• → Finnish: Hoosea
• French: Osée
• → German: Hosea
• Italian: Osea
• → Japanese: ホセア (Hosea)
• → Latvian: Hozeja
• → Limburgish: Hosea
• → Lithuanian: Ozėjo
• → Maltese: Hosegħa
• → Maori: Hohea
• → Norwegian: Hoseas
• → Polish: Ozeasz
• Portuguese: Oseias
• → Romanian: Osea
• → Russian: Оси́я (Osíja)
• → Scots: Hosea
• → Slovak: Ozeáš
• → Slovene: Ozej
• Spanish: Oseas
  • → Basque: Oseas
  • → Cebuano: Oseas
  • → Waray-Waray: Oseas
• → Swedish: Hosea
• → Tagalog: Hosea
• → Welsh: Hosea
• → West Frisian: Hoséa