hospitium

American  

[ho-spish-ee-uhm] / hɒˈspɪʃ i əm /

noun

• hospitia
  plural

1. a hospice.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• hospitia
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of hospitium

1640–50; < Latin: hospitable reception, entertainment, place of entertainment, equivalent to hospit- (stem of hospes ) host, guest, stranger + -ium -ium

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Example Sentences

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hospitium hospitia

Proceeding to his destination the father entered the hospitium of Mexico on the twelfth of February of the same year.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair

There they comported themselves with the greatest rigor, observance, abstraction, and example, so that the hospitium appeared a desert.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair

During the times of piracy, there was here, as also at Morocco, a Spanish hospitium for the ransom and recovery of Christian slaves.

From Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson

The original guesthouse here, however, appears to have been a secular foundation, for it is recorded that in 1106, a certain Milo Crispin gave it—“quoddam hospitium in viâ Londoniæ apud Colebroc”—to the Abbot of Abingdon.

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

The most remarkable is the hospitium of Sidi-el-Marti.

From Travels through the Empire of Morocco by John Buffa

The hereditary tenure of benefices by lay protectors she did not reform, but she restored the ruined cells of Iona, and established hospitia for pilgrims. 

From A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang

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