hospital

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈhɒs.pɪ.tl̩/|/ˈɒs.pɪ.tl̩/    /ˈhɑs.pɪ.tl̩/|/ˈhɑs.pɪ.ɾl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment. countable,uncountable
    — Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
  2. A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. countable,uncountable
    — The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.
  3. A place of lodging. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Hospitable. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

hospitals plural hospitale alternative,obsolete more hospital comparative most hospital superlative hospitale alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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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