"ostium" meaning in Latin

See ostium in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈoːs.ti.ũː] [Classical-Latin], [ˈɔs.ti.um] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Formed from or cognate with ōs (“mouth”). Head templates: {{la-noun|ōstium<2>}} ōstium n (genitive ōstiī or ōstī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|ōstium<2>}} Forms: ōstium [canonical, neuter], ōstiī [genitive], ōstī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], ōstium [nominative, singular], ōstia [nominative, plural], ōstiī [genitive, singular], ōstī [genitive, singular], ōstiōrum [genitive, plural], ōstiō [dative, singular], ōstiīs [dative, plural], ōstium [accusative, singular], ōstia [accusative, plural], ōstiō [ablative, singular], ōstiīs [ablative, plural], ōstium [singular, vocative], ōstia [plural, vocative]
  1. door Tags: declension-2 Synonyms (door): iānua
    Sense id: en-ostium-la-noun-JTTi3h3s Disambiguation of 'door': 100 0 0 0
  2. entrance Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-ostium-la-noun-OQLrh0~M Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 8 76 9 8 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 19 40 22 19
  3. estuary Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-ostium-la-noun-dB1~zZI8
  4. mouth (of a river) Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-ostium-la-noun-sgEnAtU4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ōstiātim Related terms: ōstiārius, ōstiolum
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      "sense": "door",
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}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.