hospitium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitium. Doublet of hospice.

Noun

hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)

1. (obsolete) An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
2. (obsolete, law) An Inn of Court.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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Latin

FWOTD – 18 February 2014

Alternative forms

• hospicium

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hostipotjom. Equivalent to hospes (“host; guest, stranger”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hosˈpi.ti.um/, [hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /osˈpit.t͡si.um/, [osˈpit̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

hospitium n (genitive hospitiī or hospitī); second declension

1. A hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality.

   aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere) ― to welcome someone as guest

2. The tie of hospitality, relation of host and guest
3. friendship, bond.
4. A place of entertainment for strangers; lodgings, inn, guest-chamber, poorhouse.

Declension

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

• (inn): hospitāculum

Derived terms

• hospitiolum

Related terms

• hospes
• hospita
• hospitāculum

• hospitālis
• hospitālitās
• hospitāliter

• hospitātor
• hospiticīda

• hospitīvus
• hospitor

Descendants

• Albanian: shtëpi
• Aromanian: uspets
• Catalan: hospici
• English: hospice
• French: hospice
• Ancient Greek: ὁσπίτιον (hospítion)

  Byzantine Greek: σπίτιν (spítin)

  Greek: σπίτι (spíti)

• Italian: ospizio
• Portuguese: hospício
• Romanian: ospăț, ospiciu
• Sicilian: spizziu
• Spanish: hospicio
• Welsh: ysbyty

References

• “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)
    
• “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