Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who murders his guests.
Etymologies
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hospit- + -cide
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From Latin *hospiticīdium, from hospes, hospit- + -cīdium ("killing"); compare English -cide.
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Examples
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To attest a morphological boundary between -it- and –al, we would then still have hospitable, hospitality independent derivation and semantic identity, hospitary, hospiticide, hospitize, and their various forms.
hospital ~ orbital ~ digital | Linguism | Language Blog 2010
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