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hospes

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin hospes (“host”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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hospes m (plural hospites or hospessen)

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

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Latin

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Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis
    Proto-Indo-European *pótis
    Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis
    Proto-Italic *hostipotis
    Latin hospes

    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.

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    Noun

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    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

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    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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    References

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    • “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

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    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

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    hospes

    1. genitive singular of hosp
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