different between xenodochium vs xenodochial

English

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (xenodokheîon, “place for strangers, inn”) from ????? (xénos, “guest, stranger, foreigner”) + ??????? (dékhomai, “receive, accept”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?z?n.???d??.ki.?m/, /?z?n.??d??.ki.?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?z?n.o??do?.ki.?m/, /?z?n.??do?.ki.?m/

Noun

xenodochium (plural xenodochia or xenodochiums)

1. A room (or separate guesthouse) in a monastery for the temporary accommodation of guests or pilgrims.
   • 1892, William Bright, The Canons of the First Four General Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon, 2nd edition, page 184

     Gregory the Great orders that the accounts of xenodochia should be audited by the bishop (Epist. iv. 27).

   • 1961, Michel Riquet, Christian Charity in Action, page 64

     There is, first, the xenodochium, to provide lodging for passing strangers, pilgrims, travellers, refugees, exiles of all kinds, like the one founded at Ostia by Pammachius and Fabiola for all who were embarking or landing.

   • 1986, Herbert Bloch, Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages, page 288

     His and his uncle Johannes de Curte's principal gift to Monte Cassino was a xenodochium or "hospitale" to house the pilgrims who, in great numbers, visited the famous shrine of the Archangel Michael.

Related terms

• xenodochial
• xenodochy

Translations

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (xenodokh?, “strangers' banquet”) + -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?z?n??do?ki?l/, /?zi?n??do?ki?l/

Adjective

xenodochial (comparative more xenodochial, superlative most xenodochial)

1. (rare) Friendly to strangers.
   • 1716, Myles Davies, Athenae Britannicae, page 3^[1]:

     At least, those intemperate Reflections may serve as Precautionary Documents for Dignitaries of all sorts to humble as well as to steer themselves by, especially in their unfrequented and almost wholly neglected Duty of Christian Hospitality and Oecumenial as well as Oeconomical Reception of Xenodochial Providence-Conformists; who must nevertheless ‘Take “Heart, nor of the Laws of Fate complain, tho’ “now ’tis cloudy, ’twill clear up again.

   • 1949, Elizabeth Marion Jamieson & Mary F. Sewall, Trends in nursing history: their relationship to world events, page 313^[2]:

     They both departed from the xenodochial type, in limiting admission to the sick only, and from the city hospital tradition by depending for support entirely on privately donated funds.

   • 2002, Rajani Sudan, Fair exotics: xenophobic subjects in English literature, 1720-1850, page 91^[3]:

     But to prefer Oxford-street to Dove Cottage is too dramatic a shift for De Quincey to make without mediation; Ann's body — purified by De Quincey's narrative — glosses the brute reality of this preference, this instance of xenodochial pleasure.

Antonyms

• (friendly to strangers): xenophobic

Related terms

• xenodochium
• xenodochy

Translations