hospitium Latin · revision 6865

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [hɔsˈpɪ.ti.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [osˈpit.t͡si.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hospitium''' ''n'' (genitive hospitiī or hospitī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[hospes]] “host, guest” with the suffix [[-ium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Isidore wrongly calls it a Greek word.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of the entertainment of guests.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant hospitality, the entertainment of guests, and in Virgil welcome.^(OLD 2012) It meant the lasting bond between host and guest, which Cicero sets beside friendship, and a similar bond between states or towns and an influential private person.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From Cicero it meant a place to stay, guest quarters, in Juvenal hired lodgings, and in Apuleius one's home.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it was any temporary stopping place, even the grave.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that a ''dēversōrium'' is any lodging on a journey, a ''hospitium'' an inn for strangers.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant hospice, asylum, inn, hospitality.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it meant the right of compulsory lodging, a monastery's hospital, and a dwelling.^(Niermeyer 1976) French ''hospice'' gave [[en|hospice]] in 1818, a rest house for travellers.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of hospitality.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of a bond between states and persons.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of guest quarters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1818 – English ''hospice'' is recorded, through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|Hospitality]], the entertainment of guests; welcome.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The bond between host and guest; a similar bond between communities and a person.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Guest quarters; lodgings, an [[m|en|inn]]; a home.^(OLD 2012)^(Döderlein 1874)

+ # Any temporary stopping place.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The right of lodging; a monastic [[m|en|hospital]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[hospitiolum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hospes]]

+ * [[hospita]]

+ * [[hospitāculum]]

+ * [[hospitālis]]

+ * [[hospitālitās]]

+ * [[hospitāliter]]

+ * [[hospitātor]]

+ * [[hospiticīda]]

+ * [[hospitīvus]]

+ * [[hospitor]]

+ * [[en|hospice]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}