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Hospitium
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1.
An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
[Obs.]
2.
(Law)
An inn of court.
Definition 2024
hospitium
hospitium
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From hospes (“host; guest, stranger”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hosˈpi.ti.um/
Noun
hospitium n (genitive hospitiī); second declension
- A hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality.
- The tie of hospitality, relation of host and guest
- friendship, bond.
- A place of entertainment for strangers; lodgings, inn, guest-chamber, poorhouse.
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | hospitium | hospitia |
genitive | hospitiī | hospitiōrum |
dative | hospitiō | hospitiīs |
accusative | hospitium | hospitia |
ablative | hospitiō | hospitiīs |
vocative | hospitium | hospitia |
Synonyms
- (inn): hospitāculum
Derived terms
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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)
- my relations with him are most hospitable: mihi cum illo hospitium est, intercedit
- 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