hospitale

English

Noun

hospitale (plural hospitales)

Obsolete form of hospital.

Italian

Adjective

hospitale m or f (plural hospitali)

(obsolete) alternative form of ospitale

Latin

Etymology 1

Adjective

hospitāle

nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of hospitālis (“of or related to guests or hospitality”)

Etymology 2

Nominalisation of the adjective under Etymology 1.

Noun

hospitāle n (genitive hospitālis); third declension

a guestroom
Synonyms: mānsiō, hospitium, dīversōrium
1. (in the plural) lodgings, a guesthouse or inn
(Late Latin, often in the plural) a shelter for the poor; a hospice for travellers or the sick (in monasteries)
Synonym: hospitium
1. (Medieval Latin) Used in proper nouns designating hospitals belonging to knightly or monastic orders.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	hospitāle	hospitālia
genitive	hospitālis	hospitālium
dative	hospitālī	hospitālibus
accusative	hospitāle	hospitālia
ablative	hospitālī	hospitālibus
vocative	hospitāle	hospitālia

Descendants

Dalmatian:
- Istriot: uspadal
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: ospidale
- Italian: ospedale (obsolete, Tuscan spedale)
- Sicilian: spitali
North Italian:
- Friulian: ospedâl
- Ligurian: uspiâ
- Piedmontese: ospial
- Romagnol: sbdêl
  Sammarinese: uspidêl
- Romansch: ospital
- Venetan: ospedal, ospeal
  - → Cimbrian: ospedàl
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: hostâl
- Old French: ostel (see there for further descendants)
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: hostal
- Old Occitan: ostal
  - Occitan: ostal, ostau
  - → Old Spanish: ostal, hostal
    - Spanish: hostal
West Iberian:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: espital, esprital, hospital, ospital, spital
  - Fala: hospital
  - Galician: hospital
  - Portuguese: hospital (see there for further descendants)
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
  - Portuguese: hospedal
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: hespital

Borrowings

→ Arabic: اِسْبِيطار (isbīṭār) (dialectal, especially Maghrebi) (influenced by Sicilian)
- Algerian Arabic: سبيطار (sbīṭār)
- Maltese: sptar
- Moroccan Arabic: سبيطار (sbīṭār)
→ Asturian: hospital
→ Catalan: hospital
→ Danish: hospital
→ Middle English: spitel
- English: spital, spittle
→ Franco-Provençal: hèpetâl
→ Hungarian: ispotály (dialectal, archaic)
→ Old French: hospital
- Anglo-Norman: ospitel
  - → Middle Irish: ospitél
    - Irish: ospidéal
    - Scottish Gaelic: ospadal
- Middle French: hospital
  - French: hôpital
- → Dutch: hospitaal
  - Afrikaans: hospitaal
  - Malay: hospital
  - → Caribbean Hindustani: aspatál
- → Middle English: hospital
  - English: hospital (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: hospital
- → Russian: госпиталь (gospitalʹ)
→ Old High German: *hospitāl
- ⇒ Middle High German: spitāl, hospitāl
  - Central Franconian: Spidol
    - Hunsrik: Spitaal
    - Luxembourgish: Spidol
  - German: Spital, Hospital (literary; dated)
    - → Polish: szpital, śpital (Middle Polish)
      - → Belarusian: шпіта́ль (špitálʹ)
      - → Kashubian: szpëtôl (through Middle Polish)
      - → Ukrainian: шпиталь (špytalʹ)
    - → Romanian: spital, șpital — regional, Transylvania, ospital
    - → Yiddish: שפּיטאָל (shpitol)
(attested in hospitālhūs)
→ Old Occitan: hospital, ospital, espital
- Occitan: espital
→ Old Galician-Portuguese: hospital, espital, spital
- Portuguese: hospital (see there for further descendants), espital
- Galician: hospital
→ Spanish: hospital
- → Bikol Central: ospital
- → Cebuano: ospital
- → Karao: ospital
- → Tagalog: ospital
→ Swedish: hospital

References

R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “hospitalis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
"hospitale", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
hospitale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
hospitale in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Middle English

Noun

hospitale

alternative form of hospital

Adjective

hospitale

alternative form of hospital