The story
- Biblical Hebrew · derived fromהוֹשֵׁעַ“Hosea”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὩσηέ
- Latin · derived fromHōsēās
- English todayHosea
From Latin Hōsēās, from Ancient Greek Ὡσηέ (Hōsēé), from Biblical Hebrew הוֹשֵׁעַ (hōšḗaʿ, “Hosea”), from the masculine singular imperative of הוֹשִׁיעַ (hoshía', “to save”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.