PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Hostel is the historically older-looking English doublet. Both words descend by different French histories from Latin hospitāle.
/ˈhɑːstəl/ · noun
A lodging place, especially an inexpensive dormitory-style accommodation, continuing the older hospitality branch shared with hospital and hotel.
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Explicitly treats the words as doublets from a shared Latin lodging source.
Hospital, hostel, and hotel comparisonDocuments fourteenth-century hostel from Anglo-French and Latin hospitāle.
Word History: Etymology and First Known UseThe graph shares hospitāle while keeping each borrowing route separate.