hospes

Borrowed from Latin hospes (“host”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔs.pəs/

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• Hyphenation: hos‧pes

hospes m (plural hospites or hospessen)

1. (chiefly Netherlands) landlord

   Synonyms: kostbaas, kotbaas

• hospita

• hospice
• hospita
• hospitaal

From Proto-Italic *hostipotis (if the shift */x/ > */h/ in the Italic languages already happened during late Proto-Italic), from earlier *xostipotis. Internally, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis, a compound of *gʰóstis (whence *xostis > Latin hostis) and *pótis (whence *potis > Latin potis). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *gospodь.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhos.pes/, [ˈhɔs̠pɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈos.pes/, [ˈɔspes]

hospes m or f (genitive hospitis); third declension

1. host
2. guest, visitor
3. stranger, foreigner
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.501–502:

     Atque ita "longa via est, nec tempora longa supersunt,"
     dīxit "et hospitibus iānua nostra patet."

     And this is what he said: “The road is long, and not long are the hours remaining [in this day]; and our door is open to strangers.”
     (Hyrieus unknowingly welcomes Jupiter, Neptune, and Mercury; the gods later grant Hyrieus’s wish to become a father. See: Hyrieus; Orion (mythology).)

4. unaware, inexperienced, untrained

Third-declension noun.

• (foreigner): peregrinus
• (inexperienced): inexpertus, ignarus, imperītus

• (antonym(s) of “inexperienced”): doctus, gnarus, peritus, callidus

• “hospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hospes 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)
• hospes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “hospes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 291