hospito

Forms

hospitō (present infinitive hospitāre, perfect active hospitāvī, supine hospitātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin hospes (“guest, host”).^[1][2] Niermeyer treats it together with the deponent hospitor.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found in Late and Medieval Latin.^[1] Köbler dates a record that Niermeyer quotes to 1138.^[2]

Semantic evolution

In medieval texts it meant to receive and lodge someone as a guest,^[3][4] to exact a right of lodging for people, to settle people as tenants on holdings, and to colonise and divide land into holdings; it was also used of staying, encamping and dwelling in a place.^[3] The laws attributed to Edward the Confessor use it of lodging a stranger, who may then be kept two nights as a guest.^[4]

Italian ospitare was borrowed from it, and Spanish and Portuguese hospedar and Romanian ospăta continue it.^[1]

Timeline

• 1138 – Köbler's date for a record quoted by Niermeyer.^[2]

Meanings

Verb

1. To entertain as a guest, offer hospitality, lodge.^[1][3][4]
2. (Medieval Latin) To exact a right of lodging and procurement for people.^[3]
3. (Medieval Latin) To settle (people) as land-tenants, provide with a holding; to colonise, share out (land) by holdings.^[3]
4. (Medieval Latin) To stay, abide in a place; to occupy or encamp in a place; to inhabit.^[3]

Related words

• hospitor

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
3. ^ a b c d e f g Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
4. ^ a b c du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre