hospice

/ˈhɒspəs/HO-spuhs

/ˈhɑspəs/HAH-spuhs

Meaninga guest house

Common meaning: a home caring for the dying

hospa host; a guestLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 866 · scan
icenoun ending: quality or act

Journey through time

Aryan root · reconstructed√GHAS‘wound, strike’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 118, p. 734 · scan
Latinhospes, hospitis‘a host’
Frenchhospitable
Englishhospice‘a home caring for the dying’ · today

hosp also in: hospital hospitable host hotel

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

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Origin: Built on Latin hospes ‘a host; a guest’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry hospes, p. 866 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry HOTEL, p. 272 · dictionary scan

Roots

hospes, hospitis Latin “a host; a guest”

Related words

hospitable hospital host hotel

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