hôte

From Middle French hoste, from Old French oste, from Latin hospitem, accusative singular of hospes, from Proto-Italic *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, possibly corresponding to a Proto-Indo-European root *gʰost(i)potis, a compound of *gʰóstis and *pótis. See also Old French ost.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ot/

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hôte m (plural hôtes, feminine hôtesse)

1. A host
2. guest
3. being which carries a parasite

• hôtel
• hôpital

• “hôte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Théo