hospitalitas
Latin
Etymology
From hospitālis (“hospitable”) + -tās, from hospes (“host; guest; stranger”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /hos.piˈtaː.li.taːs/, [hɔs̠pɪˈt̪äːlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /os.piˈta.li.tas/, [ospiˈt̪äːlit̪äs]
Noun
hospitālitās f (genitive hospitālitātis); third declension
- The entertainment and hospitable reception of guests; hospitality.
- The state of being a guest or foreigner, sojourning.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | hospitālitās | hospitālitātēs |
| Genitive | hospitālitātis | hospitālitātum |
| Dative | hospitālitātī | hospitālitātibus |
| Accusative | hospitālitātem | hospitālitātēs |
| Ablative | hospitālitāte | hospitālitātibus |
| Vocative | hospitālitās | hospitālitātēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: hospitalitat
- French: hospitalité
- Italian: ospitalità
- Portuguese: hospitalidade
- Spanish: hospitalidad
References
- “hospitalitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hospitalitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hospitalitas 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)
- hospitalitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.