hospital
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- hospitale (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]

From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
- (obsolete, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.ɾl̩/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
hospital (plural hospitals)
- A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.(UK)
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital.(US)
- 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, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]
Synonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
- clinic (small hospitals); field hospital (mobile, military); asylum, institution (mental health); leprosarium, leprosery, lazar house (leprosy); lazaret, lazaretto (port quarantine)
Coordinate terms[edit]
- infirmary, nurse's office (rooms within a larger institution such as a school); surgery (UK), doctor's office (separate medical practices)
Derived terms[edit]
- antihospital
- children's hospital
- cottage hospital
- field hospital
- general hospital
- hospital corner
- hospital corpsman
- hospital fever
- hospital gangrene
- hospital gown
- hospitalise
- hospitalism
- hospitalist
- hospitalization
- hospitalize
- hospitaller
- hospital order
- hospital pass
- hospital ship
- hospital soap
- in-hospital
- in hospital
- interhospital
- in the hospital
- intrahospital
- lock hospital
- maternity hospital
- mental hospital
- military hospital
- multihospital
- nonhospital
- posthospital
- prehospital
- psychiatric hospital
- teaching hospital
- veterinary hospital
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Baluchi: اسپتال (ispatāl)
- → Bengali: হাসপাতাল (haśpatal)
- → Cebuano: hospital
- → Malay: hospital
- → Sindhi: اسپتال (ispatāl)
- → Swahili: hospitali
- → Zulu: isibhedlela
Translations[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)
- (obsolete) Hospitable.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- At last the Ocean, that hospital friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive him; and he instantly resolved to accept her kind invitation.
Asturian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).
Noun[edit]
hospital m (plural hospitales)
- hospital (building)
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hostal.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hospital m (plural hospitals)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “hospital” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “hospital”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “hospital” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “hospital” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English hospital, borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: os‧pi‧tal
Noun[edit]
hospital
- a hospital; a large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment
Synonyms[edit]
- (a hospital): ospital, tambalanan
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from the neuter form of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)
Inflection[edit]
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hospital | hospitalet | hospitaler | hospitalerne |
genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitalers | hospitalernes |
Synonyms[edit]
- sygehus n
Further reading[edit]
hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
hospital m (plural hospitaux)
- Obsolete spelling of hôpital
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hospital m (plural hospitais)
- hospital
- Foi visitar un enfermo ao hospital. Un hospital privado.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Further reading[edit]
- “hospital” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)
- hospitable
- 1992, Ramiro Castro, “Un septimana in asuncion”, in Panorama in Interlingua, volume 1992, number martio-april:
- Le populo es multo hospital e amabile.
- The people are very hospitable and amiable.
Noun[edit]
hospital (plural hospitales)
- hospital
- 1959 March, A. Donald Merritt; Bernard F. Fetter, “Toxic Hepatic Necrosis (Hepatitis) due to Isoniazid: Report of a Case with Cirrhosis and Death due to Hemorrhage from Esophageal Varices”, in Annals of Internal Medicine, page 810:
- Esseva constatate plus tarde que illa habeva recipite streptomycina, isoniazido, e acido para-aminosalicylic un anno previemente a un altere hospital.
- It was established later that she had received streptomycin, isoniazid and para-aminosalicylic acid a year earlier at another hospital.
Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English hospital, from Middle English hospital, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hospital (Jawi spelling هوسڤيتل, plural hospital-hospital, informal 1st possessive hospitalku, 2nd possessive hospitalmu, 3rd possessive hospitalnya)
- hospital (building)
- Synonym: rumah sakit
Descendants[edit]
- → Iban: sepital
Further reading[edit]
- “hospital” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis, hospitāle. Doublet of hostel.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hospital (plural hospitals)
- A hostel or guesthouse; a place of accommodation or lodging.
- A shelter for the poor, ill or otherwise needy.
- A place of refuge; a retreat or redoubt.
- The Knights Hospitaller (a religious order)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “hospitāl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.
Adjective[edit]
hospital
Descendants[edit]
- English: hospital (obsolete)
References[edit]
- “hospitāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”) from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).
Noun[edit]
hospital m (plural hospitaulx)
- hospital (medical)
Descendants[edit]
- French: hôpital
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Compare the inherited ostel.
Noun[edit]
hospital m (oblique plural hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative singular hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative plural hospital)
- hospital (medical)
Descendants[edit]
- Anglo-Norman: ospitel
- Middle French: hospital
- French: hôpital
- → Dutch: hospitaal
- → Middle English: hospital
- → Russian: госпиталь (gospitalʹ)
Adjective[edit]
hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)
Declension[edit]
Old Occitan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin hospitāle (“hospital; guesthouse”), noun use of the neuter form of hospitālis (“pertaining to a host or guest”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hospital m (oblique plural hospitals, nominative singular hospitals, nominative plural hospital)
- hospital
- 12th c., Lo codi [The Code], translation of Codex Justinianeus by Justinian I:
- A gleisas et a hospitals
- to churches and hospitals
- One of several religious orders.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Occitan: espital
Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hospedal.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ɔs.piˈtaw/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal
Noun[edit]
hospital m (plural hospitais)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Kabuverdianu: ospital
- → Hindustani:
- → Kannada: ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ (āspatre)
- → Nepali: अस्पताल (aspatāl)
- → Punjabi: ਹਸਪਤਾਲ (haspatāl)
- → Tetum: ospitál
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostal.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hospital m (plural hospitales)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “hospital”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin hospitale, nominalisation of Latin hospitalis (“hospitality”).
Noun[edit]
hospital n
- (archaic, 11th century) lodging for travelers
- (archaic, middle age) leprosarium; care facility for the leprous
- 1844, Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe, Morianen, eller Holstein-Gottorpiska huset i Sverige. Tidsbilder, började på fästningen. Sjette och sista delen[1], page 44:
- Hennes person kan liknas vid ett hospital, som utanpå är likt ett nymåladt palats, men hyser inom sig död, sjukdom och förskräckelse; […]
- Her person may be likened to a leprosarium, which on the outside is like a newly painted palace, but harbors within it death, disease, and horror; […]
- (archaic, 15th century) care facility for the elderly, disabled, and sick
- Synonym: helgeandshus
- (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital
- 1843–1846, August Blanche, “En trappa upp och på nedra botten, eller Grosshandlaren och Klädmäklaren [1843]”, in Theater-stycken I[2], page 76:
- Hvar har ni fått de der idéerna ifrån? ni måtte ha rymt från något hospital i Frankrike?
- Where did you get those ideas from? you must have escaped from some mental institution in France?
Declension[edit]
Declension of hospital | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hospital | hospitalet | hospital | hospitalen |
Genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitals | hospitalens |
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- en:Organizations
- en:Buildings
- en:Healthcare
- Asturian terms borrowed from Late Latin
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- ca:Buildings
- Cebuano terms borrowed from English
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- ceb:Buildings
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- da:Buildings
- da:Medicine
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- Rhymes:Malay/ital
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- enm:Buildings and structures
- enm:Christianity
- enm:Hotels
- enm:Housing
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/al
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- pt:Buildings
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- es:Buildings
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