English

Noun

hospitium ‎(plural hospitiums or hospitia)

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• hospicium

Etymology

From hospes ‎(“host; guest, stranger”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hosˈpi.ti.um/

Noun

hospitium n ‎(genitive hospitiī); second declension

1. A hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality.
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.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (inn): hospitāculum

Derived terms

• hospitiolum

Related terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “hospitium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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