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xenodocheion

xenodocheion is the alternative form of xenodochium.

Meaning of xenodochium

Noun

xenodochium (plural xenodochia or xenodochiums)

  1. A room (or separate guesthouse) in a monastery for the temporary accommodation of guests or pilgrims.
    • Gregory the Great orders that the accounts of xenodochia should be audited by the bishop (Epist. iv. 27).1892, William Bright, The Canons of the First Four General Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon, 2nd edition, page 184

Forms of xenodocheion

pluralxenodocheia

Questions about xenodocheion

What is xenodocheion the alternative form of?
Xenodocheion is the alternative form of xenodochium.

Words near xenodocheion in the dictionary

  1. xenodiscid
  2. xenodiscids
  3. xenodiversity
  4. xenodochea
  5. xenodocheia
  6. xenodocheion
  7. xenodocheum
  8. xenodochia
  9. xenodochial
  10. xenodochion
  11. xenodochions

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