English → Latin
“host” in Latin
hospeshost; guest, visitor; stranger, foreignerconvīvorto eat or consume with others at a feast, banquet; to feast, banquet or carouse; to host/give a feast, banquet, or dinnecaupōtradesman; innkeeper, shopkeeper, tavern-keeperexercitusexercise; trouble, affliction; an exercised, disciplined body of men, an army
The English word host itself goes back to Latin pote, through hospitem.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
host
hospes (who receives friends under his roof): convivator or cenae pater (who gives a party): caupo (publican). To reckon without one’s host, spe frustrari.
Army, exercitus, etc., Vid:
Consecrated wafer, panis eucharisticus (ecclesiastical).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for host?
- The usual Latin words for “host” are hospes, convīvor, caupō; also exercitus. 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.