# hospitium
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitium . Doublet of hospice.

### Noun

hospitium (plural hospitiums or hospitia)
* (obsolete) An inn; a lodging; a hospice.
* (obsolete, law) An Inn of Court.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “hospitium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* hospicium

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hostipotjom. Equivalent to hospes (“host; guest, stranger”) +‎ -ium.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /hosˈpi.ti.um/, [hɔs̠ˈpɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /osˈpit.t͡si.um/, [osˈpit̪ː͡s̪ium]

### Noun

hospitium n (genitive hospitiī or hospitī); second declension
* a hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality
    aliquem hospitio (or domo) excipere (or recipere, or accipere) ― to welcome someone as guest
* 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 noun (neuter).
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Synonyms

* (inn): hospitāculum

#### Derived terms

* hospitiolum

#### Related terms

* hospes
* hospita
* hospitāculum
* hospitālis
* hospitālitās
* hospitāliter
* hospitātor
* hospiticīda
* hospitīvus
* hospitor

#### Descendants

* Asturian: hespiciu
* Albanian: shtëpi
* Aromanian: uspets
* Catalan: hospici
* English: hospice
* French: hospice
* Ancient Greek: ὁσπίτιον (hospítion)
    Byzantine Greek: σπίτιν (spítin)
       Greek: σπίτι (spíti)
* Italian: ospizio
* Portuguese: hospício
* Romanian: ospăț, ospiciu
* Sicilian: spizziu
* Spanish: hospicio
* → Proto-Brythonic: *öspɨd
** Middle Welsh: yspyt
*** ⇒ Middle Welsh: yspyty
**** Welsh: ysbyty

### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)
* “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
* Dizionario Latino, Olivetti