spital

See also: Spital, špital, and špitál

English

Alternative forms

• spittle

Etymology

Middle English spitel; ultimately an aphetic form of hospital.

Noun

spital (plural spitals)

1. A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069:, II.1.3:

     Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […].

Anagrams

• Pilats, atslip, pastil, plaits

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Romanian

Etymology

German Spital

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [spiˈtal]

Noun

spital n (plural spitale or spitaluri)

1. hospital

Declension

declension of spital

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) spital	spitalul	(niște) spitale	spitalele
genitive/dative	(unui) spital	spitalului	(unor) spitale	spitalelor
vocative	spitalule		spitalelor

Synonyms

• bolniță
• ospital