Adjective: hospital
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hospital |
| Superlative | most hospital |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like hospital
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis
3. Proto-Indo-European *pótis
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis
5. Proto-Italic *hostipotis
6. Latin hospes
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-is
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
10. Proto-Italic *-ālis
11. Latin -ālis
12. Latin hospitālis
13. Late Latin hospitālebor.
14. Old French hospitalbor.
15. Middle English hospital
16. English hospital
17. 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”). See: French Adjectives '
hôpital', Latin Adjectives '
hospitālis'.