hospitale
English
Latin
Adjective
hospitāle
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of hospitālis (“of or related to guests or hospitality”)
Etymology 2
Nominalisation of the adjective under Etymology 1.
Noun
hospitāle n (genitive hospitālis); third declension
- a guestroom
- (in the plural) lodgings, a guesthouse or inn
- Synonyms: mānsiō, hospitium, dīversōrium
- (Late Latin, often in the plural) a shelter for the poor; a hospice for travellers or the sick (in monasteries)
- Synonym: hospitium
- (Medieval Latin) Used in proper nouns designating hospitals belonging to knightly or monastic orders.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Descendants
- Borrowings
- → Arabic: اِسْبِيطار (isbīṭār) (dialectal, especially Maghrebi) (influenced by Sicilian)
- → Asturian: hospital
- → Danish: hospital
- → Middle English: spitel
- → Franco-Provençal: hèpetâl
- → Old French: hospital
- → Old High German: *hospitāl (attested in hospitālhūs)
- → Hungarian: ispotály (dialectal, archaic)
- → Old Occitan: hospital, ospital, espital
- Occitan: espital
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: hospital, espital, spital
- → Spanish: hospital
- → Swedish: hospital
References
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “hospitalis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- hospitale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- hospitale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- hospitale in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Middle English
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