hospitium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitium. Doublet of hospice.

Noun

hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)

(obsolete) An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
(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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, 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): /hosˈpi.ti.um/, [hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /osˈpit.t͡si.um/, [osˈpit̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

hospitium n (genitive hospitiī or hospitī); second declension

a hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality
aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere) ― to welcome someone as guest
the tie of hospitality, relation of host and guest
friendship, bond
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

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
→ 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