hospitium

[ho-spish-ee-uh m]

noun, plural hos·pi·ti·a

[ho-spish-ee-uh] /hɒˈspɪʃ i ə/.

a hospice.

Origin of hospitium

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

Examples from the Web for hospitium

Historical Examples

And what a contrast must often have existed between the Hospitium and the Cloister.
Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages
Edward Lewes Cutts
This little edifice was in all probability the chapel of Beck's hospitium.
Nooks and Corners of Pembrokeshire
H. Thornhill Timmins
They entered the hospitium, where the noontide meal was about to be served.
The House of Walderne
A. D. Crake
Nearer the river there was the Hospitium, or guest-house, where visitors were lodged.
Life in a Medival City
Edwin Benson
Here are the Great Hall, now subdivided, and the Hospitium, used as stables.
Winchester
Sidney Heath

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Examples from the Web for hospitium

Historical Examples

And what a contrast must often have existed between the Hospitium and the Cloister.

This little edifice was in all probability the chapel of Beck's hospitium.

They entered the hospitium, where the noontide meal was about to be served.

Nearer the river there was the Hospitium, or guest-house, where visitors were lodged.

Here are the Great Hall, now subdivided, and the Hospitium, used as stables.

Origin of hospitium