English
hotel
Hotel is borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis ‘hospice, guesthouse’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospitālis‘hospitable’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEsame form‘hospice, shelter, guesthouse’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400ostel‘shelter’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600hostel‘shelter’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenthôtel‘mansion, hotel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1920hotel
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospitālis‘hospitable’
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEsame form‘hospice, shelter, guesthouse’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400ostel‘shelter’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600hostel‘shelter’
- Frenchc. 1600–presenthôtel‘mansion, hotel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1920hotel
Earliest quotation: 1920, Edith Wharton: “[T]he cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the…”
A compound of *gʰóstis ‘guest’ + *pótis ‘master, ruler’
Proto-Indo-European *gʰes- ‘to eat’
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis ‘guest’
Proto-Indo-European *gʰes- ‘to eat’
Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis ‘guest’
Proto-Indo-European *pótis ‘master, ruler’
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *hostipotis ‘host’
through Latin hospes ‘host’
host, hospitality, hospice, hospitable, hospitalist, 10 more
through Latin hospitālis ‘hospice, shelter, guesthouse’
Today it means
noun A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin hospitālis / hotel