The corpus record — Latin

Xenodochium

Xenodochium · n

a public building for the reception of strangers

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Where it lives

Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

xĕnŏdŏchīum — Lewis & Short

xĕnŏdŏchīum or -ēum, i, n., = cenodoxei=on,

I a public building for the reception of strangers, a caravansary, a stranger's hospital (syn. deversorium), Hier. Ep. 66, 11; Cod. Just. 1, 2, 17; 1, 3, 33; 1, 3, 35. —Called also xĕnōn, ōnis, Cod. Just. 1, 2, 19 al.

In the wild

Xenodochium Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 77.10

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.