hospiticide
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin hospiticīda or *hospiticīdium, from hospes (“host, guest”) + -cīda (“killer”); equivalent to + -cide.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hŏspĭʹtĭsīd, IPA(key): /hɒˈspɪtɪsaɪd/
Noun edit
hospiticide (countable and uncountable, plural hospiticides)
- (rare) One who kills his guest or host.
- 1837, Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter ; A Story of Madrid, volume II, pages 275–276:
- Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder, — found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.
- (rare) The act of a guest killing his host or vice versa, or an instance thereof.
- 1837, Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter ; A Story of Madrid[1], volume II, page 261:
- Anniversary of the Massacre of the Prado — the Defeat of Quesada — Murderous Reprisals — Hospiticides.
References edit
- (one who kills a guest or host): Glossographia; or, a dictionary interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language, now used in our refined English tongue by Thomas Blount (1656)
- (act of a guest killing a host or vice versa): A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Ancient and Modern Law by Arthur English (1987; Wm. S. Hein Publishing; →ISBN, page 423
- ^ “Hospiʹticide” listed on page 407 of part I of volume 5 of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1928): Hospiʹticide. rare — o. [ad. rare Latin hospiticīda, f. hospes, hospit- guest + -cīda, -cide i.] One who kills his guest or host. (Blount Glossogr. 1656.)
- ^ “hoˈspiticide” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition, 1989)