A door opened wide to someone from outside — a place that takes a stranger in, gives them food and shelter, and lets them stay. The word can be pictured as the quality of being a place (or a person) where an outsider can arrive and survive comfortably.
From the word’s history
From Latin hospitare 'to receive as a guest', built on hospes, which meant both 'host' and 'guest' — the same word for the two people on either side of the door. The -able ending makes it 'able to receive a guest', which is still exactly what the modern word says.
這個字借自法文，往上追到拉丁文 hospitare「接待為客」，其字根 hospes 同時指「主人」和「客人」——同一個字站在門的兩邊。加上 -able 就成了「能夠接待客人的」。所以現代的 hospitable 幾乎原封不動保留了字源：這個人／這個地方，有接住一個外來者的能力。
Wiktionary (hospitable, hospes); Online Etymology Dictionary
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hospitableadj/hɒsˈpɪtəbl̩/
- 1
cordial and generous towards guests
- hospitable family
- "And you come, brother," said Mr. Wegg, in a hospitable glow, "you come like I don't know what—exactly like it—I shouldn't know you from it—shedding a halo all around you."
- 2
receptive and open-minded
- 3
favorable
- 4
favorable for life; livable; suitable for life.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。