hospes

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis, a compound of *gʰóstis (whence hostis) and *pótis (whence potis). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *gospodь.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhos.pes/, [ˈhɔs̠pɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈos.pes/, [ˈɔspes]

Noun

hospes m (genitive hospitis); third declension

1. host
2. guest, visitor
3. stranger; foreigner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hospes	hospitēs
Genitive	hospitis	hospitum
Dative	hospitī	hospitibus
Accusative	hospitem	hospitēs
Ablative	hospite	hospitibus
Vocative	hospes	hospitēs

Derived terms

• hospita
• hospitālis
• hospiticīda
• hospitium

• hospitīvus
• hospitō
• hospitor

Related terms

• hospita
• hospitāculum
• hospitālia
• hospitālitās

• hospitāliter
• hospitātor
• hospitiolum

Descendants

• Aromanian: oaspi
• Catalan: hoste
• English: host
• French: hôte
• Friulian: ospit
• Italian: ospite, oste (through Old French)

• Occitan: òste
• Portuguese: hóspede
• Romanian: oaspete
• Romansch: hosp
• Sicilian: òspiti, òsputi
• Spanish: huésped

References

• “hospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hospes 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)
• hospes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hospes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 291