Etymograph

English

hospitage

Hospitage comes from Latin hospitium ‘a hospitable reception, entertainment,…’, from hospes ‘host’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis ‘lord, master’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰóstipotis‘lord, master’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*hostipotis‘host’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospes‘host’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospitium‘a hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospitagium
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1590hospitage

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʰóstipotis‘lord, master’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*hostipotis‘host’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospes‘host’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospitium‘a hospitable reception, entertainment, hospitality’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospitagium
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1590hospitage

Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, (please specify the book): “That his ungentle hoste n'ote him appeach Of vile…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *hostipotis ‘host’

hostel, hostage, hostess, hotelier, 11 more

through Latin hospes ‘host’

hotel, host, 15 more

Today it means

noun hospitality (lodging or putting someone up)

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis / hospitage

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