hospitalier

French

Alternative forms

  • hôpitalier (nonstandard, in the sense of “hospital”)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French hospitalier, derived from hospital (whence modern hôpital) + -ier, in part after Medieval Latin hospitalarius. As a more learned word, the adjective failed to undergo the native phonetic development as seen in the underlying noun.

Pronunciation

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔs.pi.ta.lje/
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Adjective

hospitalier (feminine hospitalière, masculine plural hospitaliers, feminine plural hospitalières)

  1. (relational) hospital
  2. hospitable
    Antonym: inhospitalier

Derived terms

Noun

hospitalier m (plural hospitaliers)

  1. hospitaler[1]

References

Further reading

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

hospitalier

  1. alternative form of hospiteler