hospital
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”)
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital (plural hospitals)
- 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.
- 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.
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:
- (UK, chiefly in prepositional phrases, without determiner or article) The place and state of being hospitalized.
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
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Adjective [edit]
hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)
- (obsolete) hospitable
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)
Catalan [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital m (plural hospitals)
Danish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from the neuter form of hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)
Synonyms [edit]
- sygehus n
Inflection [edit]
| neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | hospital | hospitalet | hospitaler | hospitalerne |
| genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitalers | hospitalernes |
External links [edit]
Hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
French [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital m (plural hospitaux)
- Obsolete spelling of hôpital.
Interlingua [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /hos.piˈtal/
Adjective [edit]
hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)
Malay [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English hospital, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital (plural hospital-hospital)
- hospital (building)
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Middle French [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital m (plural hospitaulx)
- hospital (medical)
Old French [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital m (oblique plural hospitaus, nominative singular hospitaus, nominative plural hospital)
- hospital (medical)
Adjective [edit]
hospital
Declension [edit]
| Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Subject | hospitals, hospitaus | hospitale | hospital |
| Oblique | hospital | hospitale | hospital | |
| Plural | Subject | hospital | hospitales | hospital |
| Oblique | hospitals, hospitaus | hospitales | hospital |
Portuguese [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital m (plural hospitais)
Spanish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowed from Latin hospitale.
Noun [edit]
hospital m (plural hospitales)
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Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
hospital n
- (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital
Declension [edit]
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neuter | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | hospital | hospitalet | hospital | hospitalen |
| genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitals | hospitalens |
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