Hospital

See also: hospital and hôpital

English

Proper noun

Hospital (plural Hospitals)

1. A surname.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɔspiˈtaːl/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːl

Noun

Hospital n (strong, genitive Hospitals, plural Hospitale or Hospitäler)

1. (literary, dated) alternative form of Spital

Declension

Declension of Hospital [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Hospital	die	Hospitale, Hospitäler
genitive	eines	des	Hospitals	der	Hospitale, Hospitäler
dative	einem	dem	Hospital	den	Hospitalen, Hospitälern
accusative	ein	das	Hospital	die	Hospitale, Hospitäler

Further reading

• “Hospital”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Hospital” in Duden online
• “Hospital” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Hunsrik

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese hospital, from Old Galician-Portuguese espital, from Late Latin hospitāle, from Latin hospitālis, from Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis. Doublet of Spitaal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ospiˈtaːl/, /ospiˈtal/, /hospiˈtaːl/, /hospiˈtal/
• Rhymes: -aːl, -al
• Syllabification: Hos‧pi‧tal

Noun

Hospital m (plural Hospital)

1. synonym of Krankehaus (“hospital”)