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

Etymology

Origin of hospitium

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

Example Sentences

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hospitium hospitia

But natheless the hospitium is open to you as to all, whether gentle or simple, lay folk or clerks.

From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

During one of his adventurous excursions among the Alps, on foot, accompanied only by his servant, he approached the hospitium of Saint Gothard.

From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

He left the islands before July 13, 1689, and from that time until 1696 was in charge of the hospitium in Mexico.

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 almonry for the relief of the poor, with a great hall annexed, forms the paupers' hospitium.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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