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Hotel is borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis ‘hospice, guesthouse’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhospitālis¹‘hospitable’
2. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEhospitālis¹‘hospice, shelter, guesthouse’
3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400ostel¹‘shelter’
4. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600hostel¹‘shelter’
5. Frenchc. 1600–presenthôtel¹‘mansion, hotel’
6. Englishearliest quotation 1920hotel¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English hotel
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1920, Edith Wharton: “[T]he cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the…”.