sickhouse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place where sick or injured people are cared for; a hospital.
    — The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used.

词形变化

sickhouses plural

词源

From Middle English sykhous, sek hous (“hospital”, literally “a house for the sick”), equivalent to sick + house. Cognate with West Frisian sikehûs (“hospital”), Dutch ziekenhuis (“hospital”), German Low German Süükhuus, Sükenhuus (“hospital”), German Siechhaus, Siechenhaus (“infirmary”), Danish sygehus (“hospital”), Swedish sjukhus (“hospital”), Icelandic sjúkrahús (“hospital”). Compare also German Krankenhaus (“hospital”), Saterland Frisian Kroankenhuus (“hospital”), Old English lǣċehūs (“hospital”).
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