Pronounced: fyoo-til-ih-TARE-ee-uhn, adj/noun
Notes: I haven’t seen this word, but you may be able to guess the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word xenial means “of, relating to, or constituting hospitality or relations between host and guest”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1700s
Background / Comments
Our word looked to me like a combination of “genial” and “xenos”, the Greek word for a stranger (from which we get xenophobic [fear of stranger]). While that isn’t right, it does give a pretty good idea of the meaning of the word. Our word merely came from the Greek word xenios, which came from xenos (guest; stranger).
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