hospital

English

A room in a hospital.

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Etymology

From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”)

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Noun

hospital (plural hospitals)

1. A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
2. 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.
3. (obsolete) A place of lodging.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:

     they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht [...].

Synonyms

• sickhouse

Derived terms

• cottage hospital

Related terms

• hospitable
• hospitality

Translations

building

Afrikaans: hospitaal (af) Arabic: مستشفى (ar) (mustášfā) f. Moroccan Arabic: صبطار (SbiTār) m. Aragonese: espital m. Armenian: հիվանդանոց (hy) (hivandanoc’) Azeri: xəstəxana (az) Basque: ospitale (eu), erietxe (eu) Belarusian: бальніца (be) (bal’níca) f., шпiталь (be) (špitál’) m., лякарня (be) (ljakárnja) f. Bulgarian: болница (bg) (bólnica) f. Burmese: ဆေးရုံ (my) (hse:yon) Catalan: hospital (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 醫院 (cmn), 医院 (cmn) (yīyuàn) Czech: nemocnice (cs) f. Danish: hospital (da) n., sygehus (da) n. Dutch: ziekenhuis (nl) n., hospitaal (nl) n., gasthuis (nl) n. Esperanto: malsanulejo (eo), hospitalo (eo) Estonian: haigla (et) Ewe: atikewɔƒe n., kɔdzi n. Faroese: sjúkrahús (fo) n. Finnish: sairaala (fi) French: hôpital (fr) m. Georgian: საავადმყოფო (ka) (saavadmqop’o) German: Krankenhaus (de) n. Greek: νοσοκομείο (el) (nosokomío) n. Hebrew: בֵּית־חוֹלִים (he) (beit-kholím) m. Hiligaynon: ospital, klinika, bululngan Hindi: रुग्णालय (hi) (rugṇālay) m., अस्पताल (hi) (aspatāl) m. Hungarian: kórház (hu) Icelandic: sjúkrahús (is) n. Indonesian: rumah sakit, hospital Interlingua: hospital (ia) Inuktitut: ᐋᓐᓂᐊᕕᒃ (iu) (aanniavik) Irish: ospidéal Italian: ospedale (it) m. Japanese: 病院 (ja) (びょういん, byōin) Kazakh: аурухана (kk) (awrwxana) Khmer: មន្ទីរពេទ្យ (km) (mʊəntii pɛɛt) Korean: 병원 (ko) (byeong-won) (病院 (ko)) Kurdish: نه‌خۆشخانه‌ (ku), خه‌سته‌خانه‌ (ku) Kyrgyz: оорукана (ky) (oorukana) Lao: ​ໂຮງໝໍ (lo) (hóːŋmɔ̌ː)

Latin: nosocomium (la), valetudinarium (la) Latvian: slimnīca (lv) f. Lithuanian: ligoninė (lt) f. Lombard: ospedal Luxembourgish: Spidol (lb) n. Macedonian: болница (mk) (bólnica) f. Malay: rumah sakit, hospital Maltese: sptar (mt) Mongolian: эмнэлэг (mn) (emneleg), госпиталь (mn) (gospital’) Norwegian: sykehus (no) n. Papiamentu: hòspital Pashto: روغتون (ps) (roγtun) m. Persian: بیمارستان (fa) (bimârestân) Polish: szpital (pl) m. Portuguese: hospital (pt) m. Romanian: spital (ro) n. Russian: больница (ru) (bol’níca) f., госпиталь (ru) (góspital’) m. (usually a military hospital) Sanskrit: चिकित्सालय (sa) (cikitsālaya) m. Scottish Gaelic: taigh-leighis (gd) m., taigh-eiridinn (gd) m., taigh-tinnis (gd) m., ospadal (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: болница (sh) f. Roman: bolnica (sh) f. Slovak: nemocnica (sk) f. Slovene: bolnišnica (sl) f., bolnica (sl) f. Spanish: hospital (es) m. Swahili: hospitali (sw) Swedish: sjukhus (sv) n. Tagalog: ospital (tl), pagamutan (tl) Tajik: бемористон (tg) (bemoriston) Tatar: хастаханә (tt) (xastaxanä), шифаханә (tt) (şifaxanä) Telugu: ఆసుపత్రి (te) (aasupatri) Tetum: ospitál, uma-moras Thai: โรงพยาบาล (th) (rohng phayaabaan) Turkish: hastane (tr) Turkmen: keselhana (tk), gospital (tk) Cyrillic: кеселхана (tk), госпитал (tk) Ukrainian: лікарня (uk) (likárnja) f., шпiталь (uk) (špitál’) m. Urdu: اسپتال (ur) (aspatāl) m. Uzbek: kasalxona (uz) Vietnamese: bệnh viện (vi), nhà thương (vi) Welsh: ysbyty (cy) m.

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Noun

hospital m. (plural hospitals)

1. hospital

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔspitaːl/, [hɔsb̥iˈtˢæːˀl] or IPA: /hospitaːl/, [hosb̥iˈtˢæːˀl]

Noun

hospital n. (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

1. hospital

Synonyms

• sygehus n.

Inflection

    Inflection of hospital

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	hospital	hospitalet	hospitaler	hospitalerne
genitive	hospitals	hospitalets	hospitalers	hospitalernes

External links

• Hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

hospital m. (plural hospitaux)

1. Obsolete spelling of hôpital.

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Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hos.piˈtal/

Adjective

hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)

1. hospitable

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Middle French

Noun

hospital m. (plural hospitaulx)

1. hospital (medical)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitale.

Noun

hospital m. (plural hospitales)

1. hospital

Related terms

• hostal

See also

• clínica

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Swedish

Noun

hospital n.

1. (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital

Declension

Declension of hospital

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