What is the Latin word for guest?

The usual Latin words for “guest” are convīva, hospes, adventor; also umbra. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“guest” in Latin

convīvaa guest at a banquet hospeshost; guest, visitor; stranger, foreigner adventorguest, visitor (especially to a tavern)umbrashadow; shade, ghost, phantom, apparition; the realm of shades, the shades, the world below or underworld

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

guest

conviva (at a party; umbra = an uninvited guest brought by one vjho is invited): hospes: adventor (hospes is the guest who visits his friend; adventor, the person who puts up at his host’s; Sen., Benef., 1, 14, Nemo se stabularii aut cauponis hospitem judicat. Döderlein). To receive anybody as one’s guest, aliquem hospitio excipere; aliquem invitare tecto ac domo: aliquem cenae or in convivium adhibere (at a party).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for guest?: The usual Latin words for “guest” are convīva, hospes, adventor; also umbra. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.