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Where does “osta” come from?

osta (Italian) comes from Italian ostare, from Latin obstāre.

osta (Italian): inflection of ostare: ## third-person singular...

Definitions

  1. inflection of ostare: ## third-person singular...

Ancestry of “osta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianostareto stand in the way of, to hinder, to oppose
2Latinobstāre—
Every word from Latin obstāre →