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szpital

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Middle High German spitāl. First attested in 1424.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ʃʲpʲitaːlʲ/
    • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ʃʲpʲitɒlʲ/

    Noun

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    szpital m animacy unattested (related adjective szpitalny)

    1. (attested in Masovia, Greater Poland) hospital (medical facility for sick people)
      • 1950 [1498], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 1800, Warsaw:
        Jakom ya nye wszyal cztherech korczi pszenycze... Yana... we spythalv Szwyathego Ducha
        [Jakom ja nie wziął czterech korcy pszenice... Jana... we szpitalu Świętego Ducha]
      • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 61v:
        Hospitale est domus pauperum eyn spital spythal
        [Hospitale est domus pauperum eyn spital szpital]

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    Polish

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    Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Polish szpital. Doublet of hostel and hotel.

      Pronunciation

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      • Rhymes: -ital
      • Syllabification: szpi‧tal

      Noun

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      szpital m inan (diminutive szpitalik, related adjective szpitalny)

      1. hospital (medical facility for sick people)
        Hypernym: lecznica
        Hyponyms: klinika, lazaret
      2. (archaic) poorhouse, almshouse
        Synonym: przytułek

      Usage notes

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      The genitive singular form szpitalu and the genitive plural form szpitalów are obsolete.

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      Trivia

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      According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), szpital is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 29 times in news, 14 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 6 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 71 times, making it the 912th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

      References

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      1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “szpital”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 581

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