hospital

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/
• (obsolete, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/, /ˈhɑs.pɪ.t̬l̩/

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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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:

     […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]

• sickhouse

• hospice
• hospitable
• hospitality
• host

hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)

1. (obsolete) Hospitable.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     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?)

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

hospital m (plural hospitales)

1. hospital (building)

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

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /os.piˈtal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /us.piˈtal/

hospital m (plural hospitals)

1. hospital

• hospitalitat
• hospici
• hostal
• hoste

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

• Hyphenation: os‧pi‧tal

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

• (a hospital): ospital, tambalanan

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

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

hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

1. hospital

• sygehus n

• hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

hospital m (plural hospitaux)

1. Obsolete spelling of hôpital

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

hospital m (plural hospitais)

1. hospital

• IPA^(key): /hos.piˈtal/

hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)

1. hospitable

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 an other hospital.

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

• IPA^(key): /hɔspital/
• Rhymes: -ital, -tal, -al

hospital (plural hospital-hospital)

1. hospital (building)

• rumah sakit

• hospitall, hospitale, hospitalle, hospytal, hospytall, hospytale, ospitale, hospitel

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

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

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)

• hospitalarye
• hospitalite
• hospiteler

• English: hospital
• Scots: hospital

• “hospitāl (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.

hospital

1. hospitable

• English: hospital (obsolete)

• “hospitāl (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.

From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), borrowed from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”) from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

hospital m (plural hospitaulx)

1. hospital (medical)

• French: hôpital

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

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

1. hospital (medical)

• Middle French: hospital
  • French: hôpital
• Middle English: hospital, hospitall, hospitale, hospitalle, hospytal, hospytall, hospytale, ospitale, hospitel
  • English: hospital
  • Scots: hospital

hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)

1. hospitable; welcoming

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔʃ.piˈtaɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /os.piˈtaw/
• Hyphenation: hos‧pi‧tal

hospital m (plural hospitais)

1. hospital

• nosocómio

• hospitalar
• hospitalizar

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

• IPA^(key): /ospiˈtal/, [ospiˈt̪al]

hospital m (plural hospitales)

1. hospital

• hospitalidad
• hospicio
• hostal
• hospedar
• huésped

• clínica

hospital n

1. (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital