ξενία

• ξενῐ́η (xeníē) — Epic
• ξεινῐ́η (xeiníē), ξεινηΐη (xeinēḯē) — Ionic

From ξένος (xénos, “stranger, guest”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

ξενῐ́ᾱ • (xeníā) f (genitive ξενῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. hospitality, hospitable reception, entertainment
2. guest room
3. friendly relations
4. the state/rights of a foreigner
5. the idea that all strangers have a right to a certain gift, whether it is food, gold, entertainment or a place to stay

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ξενῐ́ᾱ • (xeníā)

1. inflection of ξένῐος (xénios):
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative dual

• “ξενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ξενία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ξενία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “ξενία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3578 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hospitality idem, page 407.

From Ancient Greek ξενία (xenía, “hospitality”).

ξενία • (xenía) m (plural ξενίες)

1. hospitality

• φιλοξενία f (filoxenía)