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See also: Hospital and hôpital

English

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Etymology

A room in a hospital

From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).

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Noun

hospital (countable and uncountable, plural hospitals)

  2. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
    Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital. (UK)
    Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital. (US)
    • 2010, Sameer P. Sarkar, “Mental health law and the mentally disordered offender”, in Annie Bartlett, Gill McGauley, editors, Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section 3 (Law), page 265:
      This section of the Act gives the court powers to assess whether treatment is going to be beneficial and hence whether hospital is a suitable disposal option.
  3. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
    The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.
  4. (obsolete) A place of lodging.

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Adjective

hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)

  1. (obsolete) Hospitable.

Asturian

Etymology

Recent borrowing from Spanish hospital from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Compare native hespital.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ospiˈtal/,
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

  1. hospital (building)

Catalan

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Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hostal.

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Noun

hospital m (plural hospitals)

  1. hospital

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English hospital, borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌhospiˈtal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal

Noun

hóspitál (Badlit spelling ᜑᜓᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜆᜎ᜔)

  1. a hospital
    Synonyms: ospital, tambalanan

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from the neuter form of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).

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Noun

hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

  1. hospital

Inflection

Declension of hospital
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hospital hospitalet hospitaler hospitalerne
genitive hospitals hospitalets hospitalers hospitalernes

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French

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Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaux)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hôpital.

Galician

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Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis
    Late Latin hospitāle
    Old Galician-Portuguese espital
    Galician hospital

    From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɔspiˈtal/
    • Rhymes: -al
    • Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal

    Noun

    hospital m (plural hospitais)

    1. hospital
      Foi visitar un enfermo ao hospital. Un hospital privado.
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    Interlingua

    FWOTD – 28 April 2020

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)

    1. hospitable
      • 1992, Ramiro Castro, “Un septimana in asuncion”, in Panorama in Interlingua, volume 1992, number martio-april:
        Le populo es multo hospital e amabile.
        The people are very hospitable and amiable.

    Noun

    hospital (plural hospitales)

    1. hospital
      • 1959 March, A. Donald Merritt, Bernard F. Fetter, “Toxic Hepatic Necrosis (Hepatitis) due to Isoniazid: Report of a Case with Cirrhosis and Death due to Hemorrhage from Esophageal Varices”, in Annals of Internal Medicine, page 810:
        Esseva constatate plus tarde que illa habeva recipite streptomycina, isoniazido, e acido para-aminosalicylic un anno previemente a un altere hospital.
        It was established later that she had received streptomycin, isoniazid and para-aminosalicylic acid a year earlier at another hospital.

    Malay

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English hospital or Dutch hospitaal,[1] both ultimately from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis. Displaced rumah sakit within Malaysia by the 1960s during the Konfrontasi.[2]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /hosˈpital/
    • Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal
    • Rhymes: -ital

    Noun

    hospital (Jawi spelling هوسڤيتل, plural hospital-hospital, informal 1st possessive hospitalku, 2nd possessive hospitalmu, 3rd possessive hospitalnya)

    1. hospital
      Synonym: rumah sakit (Malay populated areas of Indonesia)

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    References

    1. ^ Kwik Khing Djoen (1923) Kitab Vortaro: Segala Perkatahan-Perkatahan Asing Jang Soeda Oemoem Di Goena Ken Di Dalem Soerat-Soerat Kabar Melayoe, Batavia: Sin Po, page 144
    2. ^ Umar Junus (2010) Gaya bahasa sastera Melayu, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Malaysia, page 95

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    Middle English

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis, hospitāle. Doublet of hostel.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɔspiˈtaːl/, /ˈɔspital/

    Noun

    hospital (plural hospitals)

    1. A hostel or guesthouse; a place of accommodation or lodging.
    2. A shelter for the poor, ill or otherwise needy.
    3. A place of refuge; a retreat or redoubt.
    4. The Knights Hospitaller (a religious order)

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    Adjective

    hospital

    1. hospitable

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    Middle French

    Etymology

    From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”) from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

    Noun

    hospital m (plural hospitaulx)

    1. hospital (medical)

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    Old French

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Compare the inherited ostel.

    Noun

    hospital oblique singular, m (oblique plural hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative singular hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative plural hospital)

    1. hospital (medical)

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    Adjective

    hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)

    1. hospitable; welcoming

    Declension

    Case masculine feminine neuter
    singular subject hospitals, hospitaus hospitale hospital
    oblique hospital hospitale hospital
    plural subject hospital hospitales hospital
    oblique hospitals, hospitaus hospitales hospital

    Old Occitan

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin hospitāle (“hospital; guesthouse”), noun use of the neuter form of hospitālis (“pertaining to a host or guest”).

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    Noun

    hospital m (oblique plural hospitals, nominative singular hospitals, nominative plural hospital)

    1. hospital
      • 12th c., Lo codi [The Code], translation of Codex Justinianeus by Justinian I:
        A gleisas et a hospitals
        to churches and hospitals
    2. One of several religious orders.

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    Portuguese

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    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis
      Late Latin hospitāle
      Old Galician-Portuguese espital
      Portuguese hospital

      From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hospedal.

      Pronunciation

       
       

      Noun

      hospital m (plural hospitais)

      1. hospital
        Synonym: nosocómio

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      Spanish

      Etymology

      Borrowed from Late Latin hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostal.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ospiˈtal/
      • Audio:(file)
      • Rhymes: -al
      • Syllabification: hos‧pi‧tal

      Noun

      hospital m (plural hospitales)

      1. hospital
        Synonym: nosocomio

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      Swedish

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      Etymology

      Borrowed from Medieval Latin hospitale, nominalisation of Latin hospitalis (“hospitality”).

      Noun

      hospital n

      1. (archaic, 11th century) lodging for travelers
      2. (archaic, middle age) leprosarium; care facility for the leprous
        • 1844, Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe, Morianen, eller Holstein-Gottorpiska huset i Sverige. Tidsbilder, började på fästningen. Sjette och sista delen‎, page 44:
          Hennes person kan liknas vid ett hospital, som utanpå är likt ett nymåladt palats, men hyser inom sig död, sjukdom och förskräckelse; […]
          Her person may be likened to a leprosarium, which on the outside is like a newly painted palace, but harbors within it death, disease, and horror;
      3. (archaic, 15th century) care facility for the elderly, disabled, and sick
        Synonym: helgeandshus
      4. (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital
        • 1835, Victor August Altén, “Jorden [Earth]”, in Dikter II, page 94:
          Mången tror den är ett hospital,
          då han ser så många dårar samla
          sig uti dess stora gästningssal,
          och, som blinda, kring dess väggar famla.
          Many believe it's a madhouse,
          when they see so many fools gather,
          in its large reception hall,
          and, like the blind, stumble around its walls.
        • 1843–1846, August Blanche, “En trappa upp och på nedra botten, eller Grosshandlaren och Klädmäklaren ”, in Theater-stycken I‎, page 76:
          Hvar har ni fått de der idéerna ifrån? ni måtte ha rymt från något hospital i Frankrike?
          Where did you get those ideas from? you must have escaped from some mental institution in France?

      Declension

      Declension of hospital
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite hospital hospitals
      definite hospitalet hospitalets
      plural indefinite hospital hospitals
      definite hospitalen hospitalens

      See also

      • sjukhus (“hospital”, literally “sick-house”)
      • lasarett (“hospital”)

      References

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