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hotel

/həʊˈtel/hoh-TEL
/hoʊˈtɛl/hoh-TEL

Meaninga guest house

Common meaning: a building offering rooms to travellers

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√GHAS‘wound, strike’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 118, p. 734 · scan
  2. Latinhospes, hospitis‘a host’
  3. Old Frenchhostelsource
  4. Englishhotel‘a building offering rooms to travellers’ · today

ho also in: hosthospicehospitalhospitable

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

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

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

Related words

hospicehospitablehospitalhost

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