hospitium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitium . See hospice.

Noun

hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)

(obsolete) An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
(obsolete, law) An inn of court.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hospitium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

FWOTD – 18 February 2014

Alternative forms

hospicium

Etymology

hospes (“host; guest, stranger”) +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /hosˈpi.ti.um/, [hɔsˈpɪ.ti.ũː]

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.

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

hospitiolum

Related terms

Descendants

Albanian: shtëpi
Aromanian: uspets
Catalan: hospici
English: hospice
French: hospice
Ancient Greek: ὁσπίτιον (hospítion)
Byzantine Greek: σπίτιν (spítin)
Greek: σπίτι (spíti)

Italian: ospizio
Portuguese: hospício
Romanian: ospăț, ospiciu
Spanish: hospicio
Welsh: ysbyty

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, 1883–1887)
hospitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

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