hospitaculum

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from hospita or hospes +‎ -culum.

Noun

hospitāculum n (genitive hospitāculī); second declension

1. A lodging-house, inn, lodging.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hospitāculum	hospitācula
Genitive	hospitāculī	hospitāculōrum
Dative	hospitāculō	hospitāculīs
Accusative	hospitāculum	hospitācula
Ablative	hospitāculō	hospitāculīs
Vocative	hospitāculum	hospitācula

Synonyms

• (inn): dēverticulum, hospitium

Related terms

• hospes
• hospita
• hospitālis
• hospitālitās
• hospitāliter
• hospitātor
• hospiticīda
• hospitiolum
• hospitium
• hospitīvus
• hospitor

 

References

• “hospitaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hospitaculum 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)
• hospitaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.