spital
See also: Spital, špital, and špitál
English
Alternative forms
- spittle
Etymology
Middle English spitel; ultimately an aphetic form of hospital.
Noun
spital (plural spitals)
- A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 1, member 3:
- Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […].
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Anagrams
- Pilats, atslip, pastil, plaits
Romanian
Spital
Alternative forms
- șpital (regional, Transylvania)
- ospital
Etymology
Borrowed from German Spital (especially the variant form șpital), ultimately from Latin hospitalis. Alternatively from Italian ospitale (in particular the form ospital), through the intermediate of Greek σπιτάλι (spitáli). Doublet of hotel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [spiˈtal]
Noun
spital n (plural spitale or spitaluri)
- hospital
Declension
declension of spital
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) spital | spitalul | (niște) spitale | spitalele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) spital | spitalului | (unor) spitale | spitalelor |
| vocative | spitalule | spitalelor | ||
Synonyms
- bolniță
- ospital