hospitalitas

Latin

Etymology

From hospitālis (“hospitable”) +‎ -tās, from hospes (“host; guest; stranger”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hos.piˈtaː.li.taːs/, [hɔs̠pɪˈt̪äːlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /os.piˈta.li.tas/, [ospiˈt̪äːlit̪äs]

Noun

hospitālitās f (genitive hospitālitātis); third declension

1. The entertainment and hospitable reception of guests; hospitality.
2. The state of being a guest or foreigner, sojourning.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hospitālitās	hospitālitātēs
Genitive	hospitālitātis	hospitālitātum
Dative	hospitālitātī	hospitālitātibus
Accusative	hospitālitātem	hospitālitātēs
Ablative	hospitālitāte	hospitālitātibus
Vocative	hospitālitās	hospitālitātēs

Related terms

• hospes
• hospita
• hospitāculum
• hospitālia
• hospitālis
• hospitāliter
• hospitātor
• hospiticīda
• hospitiolum
• hospitium
• hospitīvus
• hospitor

 

Descendants

• Catalan: hospitalitat
• French: hospitalité
• Galician: hospitalidade
• Italian: ospitalità
• Portuguese: hospitalidade
• Romanian: ospitalitate
• Spanish: hospitalidad

References

• “hospitalitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hospitalitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hospitalitas 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)
• hospitalitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.