xenium

Meanings

1. A gift or offering.
2. A gift or offering given to a guest or a stranger, especially of food, in Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin xenium, from Ancient Greek ξένιον (xénion), neuter accusative of ξένῐος (xénĭos, “pertaining to a guest”, adjective), ultimately from ξένος (xénos, “guest, stranger”). First attested in the 1700s.