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hospitality
English
Etymology
From Middle English hospitalite, from Old French hospitalité (modern French hospitalité), from Latin hospit?lit?s (“hospitality”), from hospit?lis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“guest", "host”). Displaced native Old English cuml?þnes (literally “guest gentleness”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /h?s.p??tæl.?.ti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h?s.p??tæl.?.ti/
- Rhymes: -æl?ti
Noun
hospitality (countable and uncountable, plural hospitalities)
- The act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests; an appropriate attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward guests.
- Synonym: guestfriendship
- (business) The business of providing catering, lodging and entertainment service; the industry which includes the operation of hotels, restaurants, and similar enterprises.
- The food, drink, and entertainment given to customers by a company or organization or provided to visitors by a private host.
Derived terms
- corporate hospitality
- Southern hospitality
Related terms
- host
- hospital
- hospitable
Translations
Further reading
- hospitality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- hospitality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- hospitality in MacMillan Dictionary (Macmillan Education Limited 2009–2020)
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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)
- 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)
- 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.
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)
- (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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- hospital
Inflection
Synonyms
- sygehus n
Further reading
- hospital on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Noun
hospital m (plural hospitaux)
- 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)
- hospital
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hos.pi?tal/
Adjective
hospital (comparative plus hospital, superlative le plus hospital)
- hospitable
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", Annals of Internal Medicine, page 810.
- 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)
- 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)
- A hostel or guesthouse; a place of accomodation 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- hospital (medical)
Descendants
- Anglo-Norman: ospitel
- ? Middle Irish: ospitél
- Irish: ospidéal
- Scottish Gaelic: ospadal
- ? Middle Irish: ospitél
- 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)
- 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)
- hospital
- 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)
- 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)
- Hindi: ??????? (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)
- hospital
Derived terms
- hospital psiquiátrico
Related terms
- hospitalidad
- hospicio
- hostal
- hospedar
- huésped
Descendants
- ? Karao: ospital
- ? Tagalog: ospital
See also
- clínica
Swedish
Noun
hospital n
- (archaic, 11th century) lodging for travelers
- (archaic, middle age) leprosarium; care facility for the leprous
- (archaic, 15th century) care facility for the elderly, disabled, and sick
- Synonym: helgeandshus
- (archaic, 19th century) mental hospital
Declension
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