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hospital

English

Alternative forms

  • hospitale (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospice, shelter, guesthouse), from noun use of Latin hospit?lis (hospitable), from hospes (host, guest). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English l??eh?s (literally doctor house).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h?s.p?.tl?/
  • (obsolete, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s.p?.tl?/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?h?s.p?.tl?/, /?h?s.p?.t?l?/

Noun

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.

Synonyms

  • sickhouse
  • infirmary

Derived terms

Related terms

  • hospice
  • hospitable
  • hospitality
  • host

Descendants

  • ? Baluchi: ??????? (ispat?l)
  • ? Bengali: ???????? (ha?patal)
  • ? Cebuano: hospital
  • ? Malay: hospital
  • ? Sindhi: ??????? (ispat?l)
  • ? Swahili: hospitali
  • ? Zulu: isibhedlela

Translations

Adjective

hospital (comparative more hospital, superlative most hospital)

  1. (obsolete) Hospitable.
    • 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?)

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospice, shelter, guesthouse), from Latin hospit?lis (hospitable).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

  1. hospital (building)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospice, shelter, guesthouse), noun use of Latin hospit?lis (hospitable). Doublet of the inherited hostal.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /os.pi?tal/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /us.pi?tal/

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitals)

  1. hospital

Derived terms

  • hospital psiquiàtric
  • hospitalitzar

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.
  • “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.

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English hospital, borrowed from Old French hospital, from Latin hospit?lis (hospitable), from hospes (host, guest).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: os?pi?tal

Noun

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

Synonyms

  • (a hospital): ospital, tambalanan

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospital, guesthouse), from the neuter form of Latin hospit?lis (hospitable), from hospes (host, guest, stranger).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /h?spita?l/, [h?sb?i?t?æ??l] or IPA(key): /hospita?l/, [hosb?i?t?æ??l]

Noun

hospital n (singular definite hospitalet, plural indefinite hospitaler)

  1. hospital

Inflection

Synonyms

  • sygehus n

Further reading

  • hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

French

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaux)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hôpital

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospice, shelter, guesthouse), from Latin hospit?lis (hospitable).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitais)

  1. hospital

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hos.pi?tal/

Adjective

hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)

  1. hospitable

Noun

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.

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English hospital, from Middle English hospital, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospit?lis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /h?spital/
  • Rhymes: -ital, -tal, -al

Noun

hospital (plural hospital-hospital)

  1. hospital (building)

Synonyms

  • rumah sakit

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed form Old French hospital, from Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le. Doublet of hostel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /(h)?spi?ta?l/, /?(h)?spital/, /?(h)?spit?l/

Noun

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)

Related terms

  • hospitalarye
  • hospitalite
  • hospiteler

Descendants

  • English: hospital (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: hospital

References

  • “hospit?l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.

Adjective

hospital

  1. hospitable

Descendants

  • English: hospital (obsolete)

References

  • “hospit?l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-07.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), borrowed from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospice, shelter, guesthouse) from Latin hospit?lis (hospitable), from hospes (host, guest).

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitaulx)

  1. hospital (medical)

Descendants

  • French: hôpital

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospice, shelter, guesthouse), from Latin hospit?lis (hospitable), from hospes (host, guest). Compare the inherited ostel.

Noun

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

  1. hospital (medical)

Descendants

  • Anglo-Norman: ospitel
    • ? Middle Irish: ospitél
      • Irish: ospidéal
      • Scottish Gaelic: ospadal
  • Middle French: hospital
    • French: hôpital
  • ? Dutch: hospitaal
    • Afrikaans: hospitaal
  • ? Middle English: hospital
    • English: hospital (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: hospital
  • ? Russian: ????????? (gospital?)

Adjective

hospital m (oblique and nominative feminine singular hospitale)

  1. hospitable; welcoming

Declension


Old Occitan

Alternative forms

  • ospital, espital

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hospit?le (hospital; guesthouse), noun use of the neuter form of hospit?lis (pertaining to a host or guest).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /us.pi?tal/

Noun

hospital m (oblique plural hospitals, nominative singular hospitals, nominative plural hospital)

  1. hospital
  2. One of several religious orders.

Related terms

  • hospitaleir
  • hospitalitat

Descendants

  • Catalan: hospital
  • Occitan: espital

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • espital

Etymology

From Old Portuguese hospital, espital, spital, borrowed from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospice, shelter, guesthouse), from Latin hospit?lis (hospitable). Doublet of the inherited hospedal.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /??.pi.?ta?/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /os.pi.?taw/, [ös?.p?.?t?ä??]
  • Hyphenation: hos?pi?tal

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitais)

  1. hospital
    Synonym: nosocómio

Derived terms

  • hospitalar
  • hospitalizar

Related terms

Descendants

  • Kabuverdianu: ospital
  • ? Hindustani:
    Hindi: ??????? (aspat?l)
    • ? Caribbean Hindustani: aspataal
    • ? Fiji Hindi: aspataal
    Urdu: ??????? (aspat?l)
  • ? Kannada: ???????? (?spatre)
  • ? Nepali: ??????? (aspat?l)
  • ? Punjabi: ?????? (haspat?l)
  • ? Tetum: ospitál

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin hospit?lis, hospit?le (hospice, shelter, guesthouse), from Latin hospit?lis (hospitable). Doublet of hostal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ospi?tal/, [os.pi?t?al]

Noun

hospital m (plural hospitales)

  1. hospital

Derived terms

  • hospital psiquiátrico

Related terms

  • hospitalidad
  • hospicio
  • hostal
  • hospedar
  • huésped

Descendants

  • ? Karao: ospital
  • ? Tagalog: ospital

See also

  • clínica

Swedish

Noun

hospital n

  1. (archaic, 11th century) lodging for travelers
  2. (archaic, middle age) leprosarium; care facility for the leprous
  3. (archaic, 15th century) care facility for the elderly, disabled, and sick
    Synonym: helgeandshus
  4. (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital

Declension

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hospitalize

English

Alternative forms

  • (UK spelling) hospitalise

Etymology

hospital +? -ize

Verb

hospitalize (third-person singular simple present hospitalizes, present participle hospitalizing, simple past and past participle hospitalized)

  1. To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
  2. (medicine, archaic) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
  3. (of an injury, illness, event, or person) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
    1. Said of an injury or illness.
      • 1980, Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth, Tor (2010), ?ISBN, page 129:
        Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.
      • 1996, “The Life, the Survival and the Triumph of Franz Gabl of St. Anton”, in Skiing Heritage: Journal of the International Skiing History Association, Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1996), ISSN 1082-2895, page 38:
        He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized him for four weeks. [] [] [] Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again hospitalized by a deep infection behind his knee.
      • 2005, Timothy O’Grady, On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession, St. Martin’s Press (2006), ?ISBN, page 199:
        My father had begun his long, slow decline long before that, but subsequently, on each of the anniversaries of her death, he had suffered increasingly debilitating crises that had hospitalized him and left him still more frail than before.
    2. Said of an assailant or other person.
      • 1999 February 24, "Alan Earle" (username), "Re: Asinine excuse for breeding...", in alt.support.childfree, Usenet:
        For example, just this month in Los Angeles a Jewish school principal was beaten and hospitalized by angry Hispanics who were upset because the mostly-Latino school their kids went to didn't also have a Hispanic principal.
      • 2001, Richard L. Curwin and Allen N. Mendler, Discipline with Dignity,[1] Merrill, ?ISBN, page 198:
        One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher.
      • 2007 September 3, "john p" (username), "Re: I Finally Watched September Dawn", in alt.religion.mormon, Usenet:
        My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon.

Derived terms

  • hospitalization

Translations


Portuguese

Verb

hospitalize

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of hospitalizar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of hospitalizar
  3. first-person singular imperative of hospitalizar
  4. third-person singular imperative of hospitalizar

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