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hastae

hastae is the plural of hasta.

Meaning of hasta

Noun (1)

hasta (plural hastas)

  1. (Indian classical dance) A hand gesture used to depict the meaning of a song
    • A prudent prayer, and a vigorous dance, with many interwoven leaps and twirls and pirouettes, and hastas all around.2009 January 21, Joe Fiorito, “Tamil dance fine gesture even for our crop of snow”, in Toronto Star

Noun (2)

hasta (plural hastae)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, handwriting) A spear carried by early Roman legionaries.
    • In Table I the hastae of n and m are regularly vertical and of the same height, while in II a and II b they vary in height and are often out of the perpendicular.1897, R[obert] S[eymour] Conway, “356–367 Tabulae Iguvinae”, in The Italic Dialects […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 402

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Origin of hastae

Learned borrowing from Latin hastae.

Questions about hastae

What is hastae the plural of?
Hastae is the plural of hasta.

Words near hastae in the dictionary

  1. hast
  2. hasta
  3. hasta la pasta
  4. hasta la vista
  5. hasta pasta
  6. hastae
  7. Hastarian
  8. hastas
  9. hastate
  10. hastated
  11. hastately

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