sanatorium
See also: Sanatorium
English
Alternative forms
- sanitarium (US)
Etymology
Haplology from Latin sanatus (past participle of sānō (“to cure, to heal”)) + Latin -torium. Alternatively, alteration of sanitarium influenced by words like curatorium and moratorium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsænəˈtɔɹiəm/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
sanatorium (plural sanatoriums or sanatoria)
- An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.
Descendants
- → Dutch: sanatorium
- → Japanese: サナトリウム (sanatoriumu)
- → Korean: 새너토리엄 (saeneotorieom)
Translations
institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
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Dutch
Etymology
An internationalism, ultimately or directly from English sanatorium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsaːnaːˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sa‧na‧to‧ri‧um
Noun
sanatorium n (plural sanatoria, diminutive sanatoriumpje n)
- sanatorium
- Synonym: herstellingsoord
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.na.tɔ.ʁjɔm/
audio (file)
See also
Further reading
- “sanatorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
sanatorium n (definite singular sanatoriet, indefinite plural sanatorier, definite plural sanatoria or sanatoriene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
sanatorium n (definite singular sanatoriet, indefinite plural sanatorium, definite plural sanatoria)
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