hospitium
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hospitium. Doublet of hospice.
Noun
hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)
References
- “hospitium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
FWOTD – 18 February 2014
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *hostipotjom. Equivalent to hospes (“host; guest, stranger”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔsˈpɪ.ti.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [osˈpit̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]
Noun
hospitium n (genitive hospitiī or hospitī); second declension
- a hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality
- aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere) ― to welcome someone as guest
- 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).
| 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
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: hespiciu
- → Albanian: shtëpi
- Aromanian: uspets
- Catalan: hospici
- → English: hospitium
- French: hospice
- → English: hospice
- → Ancient Greek: ὁσπίτιον (hospítion)
- Ancient Greek: σπίτιν (spítin) (Byzantine)
- Greek: σπίτι (spíti)
- 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
- Welsh: ysbyty
- ⇒ Middle Welsh: yspyty
- Middle Welsh: yspyt
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
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti