hospitium
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin hospitium. Doublet of hospice.
Noun edit
hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *hostipotjom. Equivalent to hospes (“host; guest, stranger”) + -ium.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hosˈpi.ti.um/, [hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /osˈpit.t͡si.um/, [osˈpit̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun edit
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 edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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 edit
- (inn): hospitāculum
Derived terms edit
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References edit
- “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