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Yes. The word ostium is a Scrabble US word. The word ostium is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (2 found)

OSTIUM,TIMOUS,

5-letter words (11 found)

MOIST,MOITS,MOTIS,MOTUS,MOUST,MUIST,MUSIT,MUTIS,OMITS,SMOUT,TUISM,

4-letter words (28 found)

MISO,MIST,MOIT,MOST,MOTI,MOTS,MOTU,MOUS,MUSO,MUST,MUTI,MUTS,OMIT,OUST,OUTS,SMIT,SMUT,SOUM,SOUT,STIM,STUM,SUIT,SUMI,SUMO,TOMS,TUIS,TUMS,UTIS,

3-letter words (28 found)

IOS,ISM,ISO,ITS,MIS,MOI,MOS,MOT,MOU,MUS,MUT,OIS,OMS,OUS,OUT,SIM,SIT,SOM,SOT,SOU,SUI,SUM,TIS,TOM,TUI,TUM,UMS,UTS,

2-letter words (18 found)

IO,IS,IT,MI,MO,MU,OI,OM,OS,OU,SI,SO,ST,TI,TO,UM,US,UT,

You can make 87 words from ostium according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ostium

ostium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ōstium.

Noun

ostium (plural ostia)

  1. A small opening or orifice, as in a body organ or passage.
  2. Any of the small openings or pores in a sponge.
  3. The mouth of a river.

Anagrams

  • timous

Latin

Etymology

Formed from or cognate with ōs (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoːs.ti.um/, [ˈoːs̠t̪iʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈos.ti.um/, [ˈɔst̪ium]

Noun

ōstium n (genitive ōstiī or ōstī); second declension

  1. door
  2. entrance
  3. estuary
  4. mouth (of a river)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

  • (door): iānua

Derived terms

  • ōstiātim

Related terms

  • ōstiārius
  • ōstiolum

Descendants

References

  • “ostium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ostium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ostium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ostium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “ostium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ostium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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