xenium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin xenium.

Noun

xenium (plural xenia)

  1. A gift or offering.
    • 1872, Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott, Traditions and customs of cathedrals, page 136:
      At Rochester the Bishop received a xenium or pension on St. Andrew's Day from the convent.
    1. (historical) A gift given to guests or foreign ambassadors, often of food, in Ancient Greece or Rome.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ξένιον (xénion).

Pronunciation

Noun

xenium n (genitive xeniī or xenī); second declension

  1. a present, gift, especially one for a host or vice-versa.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative xenium xenia
Genitive xeniī
xenī1
xeniōrum
Dative xeniō xeniīs
Accusative xenium xenia
Ablative xeniō xeniīs
Vocative xenium xenia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

References

  • xenium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • xenium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • xenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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