hostel

The story

1. Latin · derived fromhospitalis“hospitable”
2. Late Latin · derived fromhospitale“hospice”
3. Old French · derived fromhostel
4. Middle English · inherited fromhostel
5. English todayhostel

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Not in use from late 17th c. (in the usual sense from mid 16th c.) to 1808, when it was revived by Walter Scott in his poem Marmion (see the quotation).

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