hospitium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hospitium. See hospice.
Noun
hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)
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(See the entry for “hospitium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
hospes (“host; guest, stranger”) + -ium
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /hosˈpi.ti.um/, [hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /osˈpit.t͡si.um/, [osˈpit̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun
hospitium n (genitive hospitiī or hospitī); second declension
- A hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality.
- The tie of hospitality, relation of host and guest
- friendship, bond.
- A place of entertainment for strangers; lodgings, inn, guest-chamber, poorhouse.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hospitium | hospitia |
Genitive | hospitiī hospitī1 |
hospitiōrum |
Dative | hospitiō | hospitiīs |
Accusative | hospitium | hospitia |
Ablative | hospitiō | hospitiīs |
Vocative | hospitium | hospitia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
- (inn): hospitāculum
Derived terms
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Descendants
References
- “hospitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hospitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hospitium 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)
- hospitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- my relations with him are most hospitable: mihi cum illo hospitium est, intercedit
- to enjoy a person's hospitality: hospitio alicuius uti
- to become a friend and guest of a person: hospitium cum aliquo facere, (con-)iungere
- to welcome a man as a guest in one's house: hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se)
- to sever (previous) hospitable relations: hospitium renuntiare (Liv. 25. 18)
- my relations with him are most hospitable: mihi cum illo hospitium est, intercedit
- “hospitium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “hospitium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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