hospitator

Latin

Etymology

From hospitor (“put up, sojourn as a guest”) +‎ -tor, from hospes (“guest; stranger”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hos.piˈtaː.tor/, [hɔs̠pɪˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /os.piˈta.tor/, [ospiˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

hospitātor m (genitive hospitātōris); third declension

1. a lodger, guest

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hospitātor	hospitātōrēs
Genitive	hospitātōris	hospitātōrum
Dative	hospitātōrī	hospitātōribus
Accusative	hospitātōrem	hospitātōrēs
Ablative	hospitātōre	hospitātōribus
Vocative	hospitātor	hospitātōrēs

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Spanish: hospedador

References

• “hospitator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hospitator 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)
• hospitator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.