The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromξενοδοχεῖον“place for strangers, inn”
- English todayxenodochium
From Latin, from Ancient Greek ξενοδοχεῖον (xenodokheîon, “place for strangers, inn”) from ξένος (xénos, “guest, stranger, foreigner”) + δέχομαι (dékhomai, “receive, accept”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.