hospitium
English
Noun
hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)
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(See the entry for hospitium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
FWOTD – 18 February 2014
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hosˈpi.ti.um/, [hɔsˈpɪ.ti.ũː]
Noun
hospitium n (genitive hospitiī or hospitī); 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.
Declension
Second declension.
Case | 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
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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)
- hospitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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
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