Latin

Noun

hospiticīda m ‎(genitive hospiticīdae); first declension

1. hospiticide (one who kills his guest or host)

Usage notes

• This word appears in Classical Latin only as a gloss for the Ancient Greek ξενοκτόνος ‎(xenoktónos).

Declension

First declension.

References

• hospiticida in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• HOSPITICIDA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “hospiticida”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.