"guest (also host)" in sette lingue
Significatoguest (also host)
Spagnolo
/ˈwesped/
m.ereditaria
Formal; for a party guest Spanish says invitado.
Francese
/ot/
m.ereditaria
Both host and guest; a hotel guest is a client.
Italiano
/ˈɔspite/
m.dotta
Its inherited doublet is oste 'innkeeper'.
Portoghese
/ˈɔspedʒi/
m.dotta
Semi-learned (the proparoxytone was never reduced); an invited guest is a convidado.
Rumeno
/ˈo̯aspete/
m.ereditaria
Catalano
/ˈɔstə/
m.ereditaria
Like French hôte, it can mean both guest and host; an invited guest is a convidat.
Inglese
/gɛst/
parente indoeuropea · PIE *gʰóstis
Native guest and borrowed host are distant cognates, both from PIE *gʰóstis.
L’antenato latino
HOSPITEM (nom. HOSPES)‘guest; host’
Tutte e sei le sorelle discendono da questa parola, salvo diversa indicazione qui sotto.
La storia
Latin HOSPES meant both host and guest, and French hôte and Italian ospite still do. Spanish broke the open o (huésped, with a silent h in front); French lost the s and marked it with a circumflex.
Parenti inglesi: host, hospitality, hospital, hotel