hôtel

See also: hotel, hostel, Hotel, hótel, and hoṭél

French

Etymology

From Middle French hostel from Old French ostel; inherited from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable; pertaining to a host or guest”). Doublet of hôpital.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /o.tɛl/, /ɔ.tɛl/

• hôtel:

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• un hôtel:

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• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophone: autel

Noun

hôtel m (plural hôtels)

1. mansion, town house, hotel
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.1.ii:

     Le palais épiscopal était un vaste et bel hôtel bâti en pierre au commencement du siècle dernier par monseigneur Henri Puget [...].

     The Bishops' Palace was a vast and beautiful building built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget.

2. hotel

Derived terms

• hôtelier
• hôtellerie
• rat d’hôtel
• hôtel de ville

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: hotel
• → Albanian: hotel
• → Amharic: ሆቴል (hotel)
• → Arabic: أُوتِيل (ʾotel)

  Egyptian Arabic: أُوتِيل (ʾotel)

  Moroccan Arabic: اوطيل (ʾuṭeyl)

• → Asturian: hotel
• → Azerbaijani: otel
• → Basque: hotel
• → Belarusian: гатэ́ль (hatélʹ)
• → Bengali: হোটেল (hōṭel)
• → Bulgarian: хоте́л (hotél)
• → Burmese: ဟိုတယ် (huitai)
• → Catalan: hotel
• → Central Melanau: util
• → Czech: hotel
• → Danish: hotel
• → Dutch: hotel
• → English: hotel
• → Esperanto: hotelo
• → Estonian: otell
• → Fijian: otela
• → Finnish: hotelli

• → Galician: hotel
• → German: Hotel
• → Gujarati: હોટેલ (hoṭel), હોટલ (hoṭal)
• Haitian Creole: otel
• → Hausa: hotel
• → Hindi: होटल (hoṭal)
• → Hungarian: hotel
• → Icelandic: hótel
• → Ido: hotelo
• → Indonesian: hotel
• → Italian: hotel
• → Japanese: ホテル
• → Kannada: ಹೋಟೆಲು (hōṭelu)
• → Korean: 호텔 (hotel)
• → Kyrgyz: отель (otel)
• → Latvian: hotelis
• → Luxembourgish: Hotel
• → Macedonian: хоте́л (hotél)
• → Malagasy: hotely
• → Malay: hotel
• → Malayalam: ഹോട്ടൽ (hōṭṭal), ഹൊട്ടേൽ (hoṭṭēl)
• → Maori: hōtēra
• North Frisian: (Mooring) hotäl

• Norwegian:

  → Norwegian Bokmål: hotell

  → Norwegian Nynorsk: hotell

• → Pashto: هوټل (hoṭál)
• → Persian: هتل (hotel)
• → Polish: hotel
• → Portuguese: hotel
• → Romanian: hotel
• → Russian: оте́ль (otélʹ)
• → Serbo-Croatian: hòtel
• → Sinhalese: හෝටලය (hōṭalaya)
• → Spanish: hotel
• → Swahili: hoteli
• → Swedish: hotell
• → Tagalog: hotel, otel
• → Tajik: ҳотел (hotel)
• → Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ōṭṭal)
• → Telugu: హోటల్ (hōṭal)
• → Thai: โฮเต็ล (hoo-dtel)
• → Turkish: otel
• → Turkmen: otel
• → Ukrainian: готе́ль (hotélʹ)
• → Urdu: ہوٹل (hoṭal)

Further reading

• “hôtel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Norman

Etymology

Either inherited from Old French hostel or borrowed from French hôtel.

Noun

hôtel m (plural hôtels)

1. hotel