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

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).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hospitāle	hospitālia
Genitive	hospitālis	hospitālium
Dative	hospitālī	hospitālibus
Accusative	hospitāle	hospitālia
Ablative	hospitālī	hospitālibus
Vocative	hospitāle	hospitālia

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • Istriot: uspadal
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: ospidale
  • Italian: ospedale (obsolete spedale)
  • Sicilian: spitali
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: ospedâl
  • Ligurian: uspiâ
  • Piedmontese: ospidal
  • Romagnol: sbdel
  • Romansch: ospital
  • Venetian: ospedal, ospeal
    • → Cimbrian: ospedàl
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: hostâl
  • Old French: ostel (see there for further descendants)
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: hostal
  • Old Occitan: ostal
    • Occitan: ostal, ostau
    • → Old Spanish: ostal, hostal
      • Spanish: hostal
• West Iberian:
  • Portuguese: hospedal

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
    • → 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
      • → Polish: szpital
      • → Romanian: spital, șpital
      • → Ukrainian: шпиталь (špytalʹ)
    • Luxembourgish: Spidol
• Hungarian: ispotály (dialectal, archaic)
• Old Occitan: hospital, ospital, espital
  • Occitan: espital
• Old Portuguese: hospital, espital, spital
  • Portuguese: hospital (see there for further descendants), espital
  • Galician: hospital
• Spanish: hospital
  • → 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 1369101
• 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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