guest (recipient of hospitality); lodger (person who lodges in another's house); host (cell or organism which harbors another organism)
“no salgas a la calle cuando hay gente / ¿y si no vuelves? ¿y si te pierdes? / escóndete en el cuarto de los huéspedes” — don't go out when there are people / what if you don't come back? what if you get lost? / hide in the guest room
Synonyms: invitado, hospedante
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis Proto-Italic *hostipotis Latin hospes Spanish huésped Inherited from Old Spanish huésped, from Latin hospitem, from Proto-Italic *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, possibly corresponding to a Proto-Indo-European root *gʰóstipotis, a compound of *gʰóstis and *pótis. Doublet of host. See also hueste.