hospitator Latin · revision 9682

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Apuleius|origins=la hospes}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [hɔs.pɪˈtaː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [os.piˈtaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hospitātor''' ''m'' (genitive hospitātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|hospitor|-tor|t1=to be a guest]], from [[m|la|hospes|t=guest, stranger]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨hospes⟩ is, according to de Vaan, a compound of [[m|la|hostis|t=stranger, enemy]] and the root of [[m|la|potis|t=able]], from [[itc-pro|*xostipot-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Apuleius' ''Metamorphoses'', ''meī hospitātōrēs'' “my lodgers”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Apuleius c. 125–175 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a lodger, guest.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In British Medieval Latin it was the reverse, one who provides lodging, to foreign merchants or to soldiers.^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''hospedador''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

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

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' One who provides lodging, a [[m|en|host]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hospes]]

+ * [[hospitor]]

+ * [[hospitium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}