Etymology

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Today it means: Hospitable, especially to visiting strangers or foreigners. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ξενία
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromξενία“hospitality; relations of hospitality between states or between a person and a state; the status of an alien, i.e., not a citizen”
  2. English todayxenial

From Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitality; relations of hospitality between states or between a person and a state; the status of an alien, i.e., not a citizen”), equivalent to xenia + -al.

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