hospita Latin · revision 33157

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *χostipot-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hospita''' ''f'' (genitive hospitae); first declension^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|hospes|t=guest, host]], a feminine formed like [[m|la|antistita]] and [[m|la|sospita]].^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan explains that noun as a compound of [[m|la|hostis|t=stranger]] and the root of [[m|la|potis|t=able]], from [[itc-pro|*χostipot-]], and compares [[pgn|hospus|t=stranger]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has it in the ''Miles gloriosus'' of a female guest and in the ''Persa'' of a stranger.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it is a female guest, a hostess or landlady, as Cicero has of a man charmed by his hostess's looks, and a woman bound to a family by ties of hospitality, as Cicero says of Servilia.^(OLD 2012) Ovid calls the town of Tomis a faithful hostess.^(OLD 2012) As an adjective it is hospitable, as Virgil's water once open to ships and now to wagons, and foreign, as Virgil's foreign bride for the Trojans.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it is a hostess or innkeeper.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a female guest and a stranger.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a hostess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, as an adjective “hospitable, foreign”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – An innkeeper, landlady.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A female [[m|en|guest]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|hostess]], a host's wife; a [[m|en|landlady]].^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # A woman linked to someone by traditional ties of [[m|en|hospitality]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A stranger, foreigner.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of places, giving hospitality, [[m|en|hospitable]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Received as a guest.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Foreign, [[m|en|alien]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hospes]]

+ * [[hospitium]]

+ * [[hostis]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The grammarian Probus asked whether Virgil's feminine adjective in ''hospita terra'' implied a masculine ''hospes'', ''hospiter'' or ''hospitus''.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}