H / hostio
verb transitive

hostio

2nd PP hostīre · conj. 4th
to make even; return like for like; to recompense
to make even, return like for like, to recompense, requite: hostire (ab antiquis) ponebatur pro aequare. Fest. s. v. status dies, p. 314 Müll.; ib. s. v. redhostire, p. 270 (ante-class.): nisi coërceo Protervitatem atque hostio ferociam, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. redhostire, p. 270; and ap. Non. 121, 16 (Trag. Rel. v. 346 Rib.): quin promitto hostire contra, ut merueris, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 110.