lasarett

From Italian lazzaretto, named after Santa Maria di Nazareth or Nazarethum, a maritime quarantine station on an island of the Ventian lagoon (modern name: Lazzaretto Vecchio), with influence of lazzaro (“leper”), 15th c. Cognate with English lazaretto.

lasarett n

1. A hospital.

   Synonym: sjukhus

   • 1954, Tage Aurell, Kathrine Aurell, Liten fransk stad, page 66:

     Och la framför mig ett tryckt formulär på vilket jag liksom genom en dimma läste, att undertecknad har vid besök å Albi lasarett vägrat undergå föreslagen insprutning mot ...

     Lay before me a printed form upon which, as if through a haze, I read that the undersigned, during a visit to Albi Hospital, declined to undergo the suggested injection for ...

   • 2023 October 31, Malvina Lindström, “Taklampa värd 100 000 stulen från lasarettet [Ceiling lamp worth 100,000 stolen from the hospital.]”, in SVT Nyheter:

     Lampan med ett värde av 100 000 kronor ska ha hängt i ett besöksrum på lasarettet i Växjö, enligt P4 Kronoberg, som var först med att rapportera om händelsen.

     The lamp with a value of 100,000 Swedish kronor is said to have hung in a visitor's room at the hospital in Växjö, according to P4 Kronoberg, which was the first to report on the incident.

2. (dated) A larger hospital.

   Coordinate term: sjukhus (“hospital”)

   • 1862, Mathilda Ahlbom, Såpbubblor III. »En löjtnant eller ingen!», page 27:

     Låt ingen doktare inbilla sig tokenskap, kusin; de ska’ ju lefva på sjukdomar, derföre ville väl de ha hela staden till ett lasarett.

     Let no doctar persuade himself of foolishness, cousin; they shall indeed live on ailments, thence they would like to have the whole town as a hospital.

• In contemporary Swedish both terms, lasarett and sjukhus, are used interchangeable. The choice of any particular term is, if anything, based on the name of the particular hospital itself. For example; Växjö Lasarett ("Växjö Hospital") is usually referred to as a lasarett, while Carlanderska Sjukhus ("Calanderska Hospital") is usually referred to as a sjukhus.
• The general nonspecific term in media tend to be sjukhus.
• In recent years, more and more hospitals have changed their official name from lasarett to sjukhus.

• lassis (colloquial, rare)

• hospital (dated)
• spetal (obsolete)
• helgeandshus (obsolete)

• lasarett in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lasarett in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lasarett in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• altarets