hospital
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Alternative forms
Etymology
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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
- (obsolete, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/
Noun
hospital (countable and uncountable, 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)
- 2010, Sameer P. Sarkar, “Mental health law and the mentally disordered offender”, in Annie Bartlett, Gill McGauley, editors, Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section 3 (Law), page 265:
- This section of the Act gives the court powers to assess whether treatment is going to be beneficial and hence whether hospital is a suitable disposal option.
- 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
Hyponyms
- clinic (small hospitals); field hospital (mobile, military); asylum, institution (mental health); leprosarium, leprosery, lazar house (leprosy); lazaret, lazaretto (port quarantine)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- antihospital
- children's hospital
- cottage hospital
- field hospital
- general hospital
- hospital bed
- hospital corner
- hospital corpsman
- hospital fever
- hospital gangrene
- hospital gown
- hospitalise
- hospitalism
- hospitalist
- hospitalization
- hospitalize
- hospitaller
- hospital order
- hospital pass
- hospital ship
- hospital soap
- hospital sock
- in hospital
- in-hospital
- interhospital
- in the hospital
- intrahospital
- lock hospital
- maternity hospital
- mental hospital
- military hospital
- multihospital
- nonhospital
- posthospital
- prehospital
- psychiatric hospital
- put someone in hospital
- teaching hospital
- veterinary hospital
Related terms
Descendants
- → Amharic: ሆስፒታል (hospital)
- → Baluchi: اسپتال (ispatāl)
- → Bengali: হসপিটাল (hospiṭal)
- → Cebuano: hospital
- → Gujarati: હોસ્પિટલ (hospiṭal)
- → Marathi: इस्पितळ (ispitaḷ), हॉस्पिटल (hŏspiṭal)
- → Malay: hospital
- → Sindhi: اسپتال (ispatāl)
- → Sotho: sepetlele
- → Swahili: hospitali
- → Zulu: isibhedlela
- → Tashelhit: ṣṣbiṭar
Translations
large medical facility
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Adjective
hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)
- (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.
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitales)
- hospital (building)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of the inherited hostal.
Pronunciation
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitals)
Derived terms
Related terms
- hospitalitat
- hospici
- hostal
- hoste
Further reading
- “hospital” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “hospital”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
Etymology
Borrowed from English hospital, borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hóspitál (Badlit spelling ᜑᜓᜐ᜔ᜉᜒᜆᜎ᜔)
- a hospital
- Synonyms: ospital, tambalanan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from the neuter form of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest, stranger”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)
Inflection
| neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hospital | hospitalet | hospitaler | hospitalerne |
| genitive | hospitals | hospitalets | hospitalers | hospitalernes |
Declension of hospital
Synonyms
- sygehus n
Further reading
hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Pronunciation
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Noun
hospital m (plural hospitaux)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitais)
- hospital
- Foi visitar un enfermo ao hospital. Un hospital privado.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “hospital”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
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.
Etymology
Borrowed from English hospital, from Middle English hospital, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis.
Pronunciation
Noun
hospital (Jawi spelling هوسڤيتل, plural hospital-hospital, informal 1st possessive hospitalku, 2nd possessive hospitalmu, 3rd possessive hospitalnya)
Synonyms
- rumah sakit (Standard Indonesian, Indonesian Malay)
Descendants
- → Iban: sepital
Further reading
- “hospital” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis, hospitāle. Doublet of hostel.
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Descendants
References
- “hospitāl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.
Adjective
hospital
Descendants
- English: hospital (obsolete)
References
- “hospitāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.
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)
- hospital (medical)
Descendants
- French: hôpital
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)
- hospital (medical)
Descendants
Adjective
hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)
Declension
Declension of hospital
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)
- 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
- hospitaleir
- hospitalitat
Descendants
- Occitan: espital
Alternative forms
Etymology
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
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ɔs.piˈtaw/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitais)
Derived terms
Related terms
- hospedar
- hospedaria
- hóspede
- hospedeiro
- hospício
- hospitalário
- hospitaleiro
- hospitalidade
- inospitalidade
- inóspito
Descendants
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostal.
Pronunciation
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitales)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “hospital”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin hospitale, nominalisation of Latin hospitalis (“hospitality”).
Noun
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, 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
- 1835, Victor August Altén, “Jorden [Earth]”, in Dikter II, page 94:
- Mången tror den är ett hospital,
då han ser så många dårar samla
sig uti dess stora gästningssal,
och, som blinda, kring dess väggar famla.- Many believe it's a madhouse,
when they see so many fools gather,
in its large reception hall,
and, like the blind, stumble around its walls.
- Many believe it's a madhouse,
- 1843–1846, August Blanche, “En trappa upp och på nedra botten, eller Grosshandlaren och Klädmäklaren [1843]”, in Theater-stycken I, 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
Declension of hospital
See also
References
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