## Etymology
From hospitalize + -ation; hospital derives via Old French ospital from Medieval Latin hospitale ('guest-house'), from Latin hospes ('guest, host').

## AI Etymology
hospitalization comes from hospitalize + -ation; hospital derives via Old French ospital from Medieval Latin hospitale ('guest-house'), from Latin hospes ('guest, host'). Morphologically, the ending is part of the etymology: the suffix is attached to the older base named in the history, producing a later English derivative. In present English, the noun sense is "the act of admitting or the period of staying in a hospital for treatment", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also appears in related forms such as hospitalize, hospital, and hospitality. Its semantic neighborhood includes admission, confinement, treatment, and institutionalization, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Medieval Latin hospitale and Latin hospes.

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- Health & Medicine
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