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See also: Hotel, hotèl, hótel, hôtel, and hoṭél

Translingual

Noun

hotel

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Hotel of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Pere Marquette Hotel
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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostel and hospital.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel (plural hotels)

  1. (now chiefly historical) A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.
  2. An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.
    • 1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165,
      When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing .
    • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
      Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
  3. (South Asia) A restaurant; any dining establishment.
  4. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
  5. The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
  6. The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.
  7. (Australia, western Canada) A pub.

Usage notes

  • The UK pronunciation omitting the initial h is in imitation of the French hôtel and is now considered old-fashioned.

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Albanian

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel m (plural hotele, definite hoteli, definite plural hotelet)

  1. hotel

Asturian

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Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteles)

  1. hotel

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel m (plural hotels)

  1. hotel

Czech

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Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel m inan

  1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative hotel hotely
genitive hotelu hotelů
dative hotelu hotelům
accusative hotel hotely
vocative hotele hotely
locative hotelu hotelích, hotelech
instrumental hotelem hotely

Derived terms

Further reading

  • hotel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • hotel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • hotel in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From French hôtel.

Noun

hotel n (singular definite hotellet, plural indefinite hoteller)

  1. hotel

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Dutch

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Latin hospitālis. Doublet of hospitaal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦoːˈtɛl/
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  • Hyphenation: ho‧tel
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

hotel n (plural hotels, diminutive hotelletje n)

  1. hotel

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteis)

  1. hotel
    Hotel de cinco estrelas..
    Five-star hotel..

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hotel, from French hôtel, from Old French hostel, from Latin hospitāle.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel (plural hotelek)

  1. hotel
    Synonyms: szálloda, szálló

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative hotel hotelek
accusative hotelt hoteleket
dative hotelnek hoteleknek
instrumental hotellel hotelekkel
causal-final hotelért hotelekért
translative hotellé hotelekké
terminative hotelig hotelekig
essive-formal hotelként hotelekként
essive-modal — —
inessive hotelben hotelekben
superessive hotelen hoteleken
adessive hotelnél hoteleknél
illative hotelbe hotelekbe
sublative hotelre hotelekre
allative hotelhez hotelekhez
elative hotelből hotelekből
delative hotelről hotelekről
ablative hoteltől hotelektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		hotelé hoteleké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		hoteléi hotelekéi
Possessive forms of hotel
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hotelem hoteljeim
2nd person sing. hoteled hoteljeid
3rd person sing. hotelje hoteljei
1st person plural hotelünk hoteljeink
2nd person plural hoteletek hoteljeitek
3rd person plural hoteljük hoteljeik

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References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • hotel in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch hotel, from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel; inherited from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable; pertaining to a host or guest”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

Noun

hotèl (first-person possessive hotelku, second-person possessive hotelmu, third-person possessive hotelnya)

  1. hotel, an establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.

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Regular affixed derivations:

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel (“hostel”, “inn”), from Old French ostel (“shelter”), from Latin hospitālis (“pertaining to hospitality”). Doublet of ospedale and ospitale.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈtɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

Noun

hotel m (invariable)

  1. hotel(s)
  2. the letter H in the Italian spelling alphabet

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Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”). Doublet of hostel (“hostel”) and szpital (“hospital”).

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel m inan (diminutive hotelik)

  1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel
singular plural
nominative hotel hotele
genitive hotelu hoteli/hotelów
dative hotelowi hotelom
accusative hotel hotele
instrumental hotelem hotelami
locative hotelu hotelach
vocative hotelu hotele

Derived terms

adjective

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adjective
nouns

Further reading

  • hotel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • hotel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital and hospedal.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
  • Hyphenation: ho‧tel

Noun

hotel m (plural hotéis)

  1. hotel

References

  1. ^ “hotel” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Romanian

Hotel
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Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitale. Doublet of spital.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel n (plural hotele)

  1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) hotel hotelul (niște) hotele hotelele
genitive/dative (unui) hotel hotelului (unor) hotele hotelelor
vocative hotelule hotelelor

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xǒtel/
  • Hyphenation: ho‧tel

Noun

hòtel m (Cyrillic spelling хо̀тел)

  1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel
singular plural
nominative hòtel hoteli
genitive hotèla hotela
dative hotelu hotelima
accusative hotel hotele
vocative hotele hoteli
locative hotelu hotelima
instrumental hotelom hotelima

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel m inan (genitive singular hotela, nominative plural hotely, genitive plural hotelov, declension pattern of stroj)

  1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel
singular plural
nominative hotel hotely
genitive hotela hotelov
dative hotelu hotelom
accusative hotel hotely
locative hoteli hoteloch
instrumental hotelom hotelmi

References

  • “hotel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotél m anim

  1. hotel
Inflection
 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. hotél
gen. sing. hotéla
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		hotél hotéla hotéli
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		hotéla hotélov hotélov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		hotélu hotéloma hotélom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		hotéla hotéla hotéle
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		hotélu hotélih hotélih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		hotélom hotéloma hotéli

Further reading

  • “hotel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

hóteł

  1. masculine singular l-participle of hoteti

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈtel/
  • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: ho‧tel

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteles)

  1. hotel

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from English hotel.

Noun

hotel

  1. hotel

Vilamovian

Etymology

From French hôtel.

Pronunciation

Noun

hotel ?

  1. hotel
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