hospitium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitium. Doublet of hospice.

Noun

hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)

  1. (obsolete) An inn, lodging or hospice.
  2. (obsolete, law, UK) An Inn of Court.

References

Latin

FWOTD – 18 February 2014

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From hospes (host; guest, stranger) +‎ -ium.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    hospitium n (genitive hospitiī or hospitī); second declension

    1. a hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality
      aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere)to welcome someone as guest
    2. the tie of hospitality, relation of host and guest
    3. friendship, bond
    4. a place of entertainment for strangers; lodgings, inn, guest-chamber, poorhouse

    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    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

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Asturian: hespiciu
    • Albanian: shtëpi
    • Aromanian: uspets
    • Catalan: hospici
    • English: hospitium
    • French: hospice
    • Ancient Greek: ὁσπίτιον (hospítion)
      • Ancient Greek: σπίτιν (spítin) (Byzantine)
    • Italian: ospizio
    • Portuguese: hospício
    • Romanian: ospăț, ospiciu
    • Sicilian: spizziu
    • Spanish: hospicio
    • Proto-Brythonic: *öspɨd
      • Middle Welsh: yspyt
        • Middle Welsh: yspyty

    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)
    • 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
    • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti