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xenium

xenium · n

a gift

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Where it lives

Letters 2 · 0.31/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

xĕnĭum — Lewis & Short

xĕnĭum, ii, n., = ce/nion,

I a gift or present made to a guest (pure Lat. lautia).

I Lit., Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 14; Vitr. 6, 10.—Hence, Xenia, the title of the thirteenth book of Martial's epigrams, because treating of such things as were usually presented to guests, Mart. 13, 3, 1.—

II Transf., in gen., a gift. present, Plin. Ep. 5, 14, 8; Dig. 1, 16, 6; Vulg. Ecclus. 20, 31.

In the wild

xenia Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.31.14
xenia Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.7.4
xenium Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.42
xeniis Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.13.8
Xeniorum Martial, Epigrammata 13.3.1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. xenium (scan p. 783; entry #13054).

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