When did the word hotel originate?

1640s, public official residence; large private residence, from French hôtel a mansion, palace, large house, from Old French ostel, hostel a lodging (see hostel). Modern sense of an inn of the better sort is first recorded 1765. The same word as hospital.



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In the last several decades many scholars have pointed out the broad sense of ?at???µa, and yet a clear majority of biblical translations continue to use the traditional “inn.”3 Other translations contend that terms like “guest room,”4 “guest chamber,”5 “guest quarters,”6 “living-quarters,”7 “lodging place,”8 “lodging, ...

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