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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Hoste
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounheadword prefix
hostel
A lodging place, especially an inexpensive dormitory-style accommodation, continuing the older hospitality branch shared with hospital and hotel.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical-form prefix
hotel
A public lodging establishment, borrowed from French hôtel through Old French hostel and ultimately the Latin hospitality family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical form
host
A person who receives guests, borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin hospes, a word that could name either side of a reciprocal hospitality relationship.
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
hostel
an inn or inexpensive lodging facility
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- 14th century–today
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- historical-form prefix
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Middle English / Indo-European
hostel
lodging, accommodation, inn, or dwelling place
- DATE
- Middle English, 14th–15th centuries
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- historical-form prefix
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- 1
Old French / Indo-European
hostel / ostel
lodging or accommodation
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- Old French
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- historical-form prefix
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- 1
Anglo-French / Indo-European
oste / hoste
host or guest
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- Anglo-French
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- gloss
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- 1
Anglo-French / Indo-European
ostel / hostel
lodging or accommodation
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- Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
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- gloss
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- 1
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 3
resolvedestablishedword prefix
Is hostel a shortened modern form of hotel?
No. Hostel is the historically older-looking English doublet. Both words descend by different French histories from Latin hospitāle.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Is hotel directly shortened from hospital?
No. Hotel and hospital are doublets: both reach Latin hospitāle, but hotel comes through French hôtel and Old French hostel while hospital comes through Anglo-French hospital.
resolvedestablishedposition text
When did hotel enter English?
Merriam-Webster reports 1687 for the lodging noun, after French hôtel had developed from Old French hostel.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 3
RANK 173GRADE Aranked-word prefix
Hostel is older than the modern hotel story.
Hostel, hotel, and hospital are doublets from Latin guest lodging. Hostel preserves the older-looking French form; it is not a recent clipping of hotel.
RANK 89GRADE Aranked reveal
The host could also be the guest.
Latin hospes carried reciprocal host-and-guest roles. The opposition feels fixed in modern English, but the historical hospitality relationship could reverse when obligations were returned.
RANK 150GRADE Aranked reveal
Hotel and hospital are siblings, not parent and child.
French hôtel continues Old French hostel, while hospital follows a related learned route through the same Latin guest-accommodation family. English hotel is not simply a shortening of English hospital.
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Merriam-Webster first-known-use record for hostel
hostel / hostel / First known use reported as the 14th century
Hostel — Definition and Word Historyattested-form prefix / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDprinted book
The first edition of the Académie française dictionary prints HOSTEL as a headword in the historical French family later normalized as hôtel.
hôtel / hotel / 1694
Le dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Tome 1 (A–L), première éditionwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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