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xenodochion

xenodochion 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 xenodochion

pluralxenodochions

Origin of xenodochion

From Ancient Greek ξενοδοχεῖον (xenodokheîon, “place for strangers, inn”) from ξένος (xénos, “guest, stranger, foreigner”) + δέχομαι (dékhomai, “receive, accept”).

Questions about xenodochion

What is xenodochion the alternative form of?
Xenodochion is the alternative form of xenodochium.

Words near xenodochion in the dictionary

  1. xenodocheia
  2. xenodocheion
  3. xenodocheum
  4. xenodochia
  5. xenodochial
  6. xenodochion
  7. xenodochions
  8. xenodochium
  9. xenodochiums
  10. xenodochy
  11. xenodollar

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