hospitale

English

Noun

hospitale (plural hospitales)

1. Obsolete form of hospital.

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Italian

Adjective

hospitale (plural hospitali)

1. Obsolete form of ospitale.

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Latin

Etymology 1

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) hospitāle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of hospitālis (“of or related to guests or hospitality”)

Etymology 2

Nominalisation of the adjective under Etymology 1.

Noun

hospitāle n (genitive hospitālis); third declension

1. a guestroom
   1. (in the plural) lodgings, a guesthouse or inn

   Synonyms: mānsiō, hospitium, dīversōrium

2. (Late Latin, often in the plural) a shelter for the poor; a hospice for travellers or the sick (in monasteries)

   Synonym: hospitium

   1. (Medieval Latin) Used in proper nouns designating hospitals belonging to knightly or monastic orders.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	hospitāle	hospitālia
genitive	hospitālis	hospitālium
dative	hospitālī	hospitālibus
accusative	hospitāle	hospitālia
ablative	hospitālī	hospitālibus
vocative	hospitāle	hospitālia

Descendants

• Ligurian: uspiâ
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Istriot: uspadal
  • Italian: ospedale
• Old French: ostel
  • Bourguignon: hosteau, housteau, oustiau
  • Middle French: hostel
    • French: hôtel (see there for further descendants)
  • Gallo: ostèu
  • Lorrain: eutà, hutaû
  • Poitevin-Saintongeais: oustàu
  • → Middle Dutch: hosteel
  • → Middle English: hostel
    • English: hostel
    • Scots: hostel
    • → Middle Cornish: ostel
      • Cornish: ostel
  • → Italian: ostello
• Old Occitan: ostal
  • Catalan: hostal
  • Occitan: ostal, ostau
  • → Old Spanish: ostal, hostal
    • Spanish: hostal
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: ospedâl
  • Romansch: ospital
• Venetan: ospedal, ospeal
  • → Cimbrian: ospedàl
• Portuguese: hospedal
• Sicilian: spitali

Borrowings

• Arabic: اِسْبِيطار (isbīṭār) (dialectal, especially Maghrebi) (influenced by Sicilian)
  • Algerian Arabic: سبيطار (sbīṭār)
  • Maltese: sptar
  • Moroccan Arabic: سبيطار (sbīṭār)
• Asturian: hospital
• Danish: hospital
• Middle English: spitel
  • English: spital, spittle
• Franco-Provençal: hèpetâl
• Old French: hospital
  • Anglo-Norman: ospitel
    • → Middle Irish: ospitél
      • Irish: ospidéal
      • Scottish Gaelic: ospadal
  • Middle French: hospital
    • French: hôpital
  • → Dutch: hospitaal
    • Afrikaans: hospitaal
    • Malay: hospital
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: aspatál
  • → Middle English: hospital
    • English: hospital (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: hospital
  • → Russian: госпиталь (gospitalʹ)
• Old High German: *hospitāl (attested in hospitālhūs)
  • Middle High German: hospitāl
    • German: Hospital
  • ⇒ Middle High German: spitāl (aphetic form)
    • Central Franconian: Spidol
    • German: Spital, Hospital (literary; dated)
      • → Polish: szpital, śpital (Middle Polish)
        • → Belarusian: шпіта́ль (špitálʹ)
        • → Kashubian: szpëtôl (through Middle Polish)
        • → Ukrainian: шпиталь (špytalʹ)
      • → Romanian: spital, șpital — regional, Transylvania, ospital
      • → Yiddish: שפּיטאָל (shpitol)
    • Luxembourgish: Spidol
• Hungarian: ispotály (dialectal, archaic)
• Old Occitan: hospital, ospital, espital
  • Occitan: espital
• Old Galician-Portuguese: hospital, espital, spital
  • Portuguese: hospital (see there for further descendants), espital
  • Galician: hospital
• Spanish: hospital
  • → Bikol Central: ospital
  • → Cebuano: ospital
  • → Karao: ospital
  • → Tagalog: ospital
• Swedish: hospital

References

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “hospitalis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• hospitale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hospitale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• hospitale in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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Middle English

Noun

hospitale

1. Alternative form of hospital

Adjective

hospitale

1. Alternative form of hospital