hospital

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See also: Hospital and hôpital

English

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Etymology

A room in a hospital

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.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hospital (plural hospitals)

  1. 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)
  2. 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.
  3. (obsolete) A place of lodging.

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Adjective

hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)

  1. (obsolete) Hospitable.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Howell to this entry?)

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

  1. hospital (building)

Catalan

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Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hostal.

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Noun

hospital m (plural hospitals)

  1. hospital

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Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English hospital, borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: os‧pi‧tal

Noun

hospital

  1. 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

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from the neuter form of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔspitaːl/, [hɔsb̥iˈtˢæːˀl] or IPA(key): /hospitaːl/, [hosb̥iˈtˢæːˀl]

Noun

hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

  1. hospital

Inflection

Declension of hospital
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hospital hospitalet hospitaler hospitalerne
genitive hospitals hospitalets hospitalers hospitalernes

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French

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaux)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hôpital.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitais)

  1. hospital

Interlingua

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Adjective

hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)

  1. 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

hospital (plural hospitales)

  1. 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", 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

Etymology

Borrowed from English hospital, from Middle English hospital, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis.

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Noun

hospital (plural hospital-hospital)

  1. hospital (building)

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed form Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis, hospitāle. Doublet of hostel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(h)ɔspiˈtaːl/, /ˈ(h)ɔspital/, /ˈ(h)ɔspitəl/

Noun

hospital (plural hospitals)

  1. A hostel or guesthouse; a place of accomodation or lodging.
  2. A shelter for the poor, ill or otherwise needy.
  3. A place of refuge; a retreat or redoubt.
  4. The Knights Hospitaller (a religious order)

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Adjective

hospital

  1. hospitable

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Middle French

Etymology

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

hospital m (plural hospitaulx)

  1. hospital (medical)

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Compare the inherited ostel.

Noun

hospital oblique singular, m (oblique plural hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative singular hospitaus or hospitax or hospitals, nominative plural hospital)

  1. hospital (medical)

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Adjective

hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)

  1. hospitable; welcoming

Declension

Declension of hospital
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

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospitāle (“hospital; guesthouse”), noun use of the neuter form of hospitālis (“pertaining to a host or guest”).

Pronunciation

Noun

hospital m (oblique plural hospitals, nominative singular hospitals, nominative plural hospital)

  1. hospital
    • 12th c., Lo codi [The Code], translation of Codex Justinianeus by Justinian I:
      A gleisas et a hospitals
      to churches and hospitals
  2. One of several religious orders.

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Portuguese

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hospedal.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitais)

  1. hospital

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ospiˈtal/ [os.piˈt̪al]

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

  1. hospital

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Swedish

Noun

hospital n

  1. (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital

Declension

Declension of hospital 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hospital hospitalet hospital hospitalen
Genitive hospitals hospitalets hospitals hospitalens
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