hospes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospes (host).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦɔs.pəs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: hos‧pes

Noun

hospes m (plural hospites or hospessen)

  1. (chiefly Netherlands) landlord
    Synonyms: kostbaas, kotbaas

Coordinate terms

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *hostipotis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis, a compound of *gʰóstis (whence hostis) and *pótis (whence potis); etymologically equivalent to hostis +‎ potis. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *gospodь.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    hospes m or f (genitive hospitis); third declension

    1. host
    2. guest, visitor
    3. stranger, foreigner
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.501–502:
        Atque ita "longa via est, nec tempora longa supersunt,"
        dīxit "et hospitibus iānua nostra patet."
        And this is what he said: “The road is long, and not long are the hours remaining [in this day]; and our door is open to strangers.”
        (Hyrieus unknowingly welcomes Jupiter, Neptune, and Mercury; the gods later grant Hyrieus’s wish to become a father. See: Hyrieus; Orion (mythology).)
    4. unaware, inexperienced, untrained

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative hospes hospitēs
    genitive hospitis hospitum
    dative hospitī hospitibus
    accusative hospitem hospitēs
    ablative hospite hospitibus
    vocative hospes hospitēs

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    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Aromanian: oaspi, oaspe, ospi
    • Catalan: hoste
    • Old Francoprovençal: oste, hoste
      • Franco-Provençal: hôpte
    • Old French: oste
    • Friulian: ospit
    • Galician: hóspede
    • Italian: ospite, oste (through Old French)
    • Occitan: òste
    • Piedmontese: òspite
    • Portuguese: hóspede
    • Romanian: oaspete
    • Romansch: hosp
    • Sicilian: òspiti, òsputi
    • Spanish: huésped
    • Walloon: oste, oiste
    • Welsh: osb

    References

    • hospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • hospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "hospes", 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)
    • hospes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
    • hospes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
    • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 291

    Old English

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈxos.pes/, [ˈhos.pes]

    Noun

    hospes

    1. genitive singular of hosp