hospital

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A place where sick or injured people are treated by doctors and nurses.

   An ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.

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Simplified etymology

Hospital belongs to a family of words associated with Latin hospis, which meant both “host” and “guest.” The same source gave English host, hostel, hotel, hospice, and hospitality.

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis Late Latin hospitālisbor. Old French hospitalbor. Middle English hospital English 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. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).

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