| 词汇 | xenia |
| 词源 | xenia. Xenia were the gifts, usually delicacies from the table, that subjects in the Middle Ages presented to their prince when he passed through their estates. The Romans and Greeks had a similar custom, offering xenia to guests and strangers passing by, and the word, in fact, derives from the Greek for “guest or stranger.” The singular is xenium. |
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