hospitium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitium. Doublet of hospice.

Noun

hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)

1. (obsolete) An inn, lodging or hospice.
2. (obsolete, law, UK) An Inn of Court.

References

• “hospitium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

FWOTD – 18 February 2014

Alternative forms

• hospicium

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔsˈpɪ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [osˈpit̪.t̪͡s̪i.um]

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).

	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

• Asturian: hespiciu
• → Albanian: shtëpi
• Aromanian: uspets
• Catalan: hospici
• → English: hospitium
• French: hospice
  • → English: hospice
• → Ancient Greek: ὁσπίτιον (hospítion)
  • Ancient Greek: σπίτιν (spítin) (Byzantine)
    • Greek: σπίτι (spíti)
• Italian: ospizio
• Portuguese: hospício
• Romanian: ospăț, ospiciu
• Sicilian: spizziu
• Spanish: hospicio
• → Proto-Brythonic: *öspɨd
  • Middle Welsh: yspyt
    • ⇒ Middle Welsh: yspyty
      • 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