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START / NODE 152Present-Day English14th century–today
hospital
A medical institution whose name first referred to guest accommodation and charitable lodging, through Medieval Latin hospitāle.
“A hospital was a guest room before it was a medical institution. Care for the sick grew from the older duty to shelter travelers and people in need.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishhospital
an institution for charitable residence and, later, medical care
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Middle English · Middle Englishhospital / ospitaleresidence for pilgrims and travelers; charitable lodging for poor or infirm people
- SOUND CHANGE
- Middle English hospital / ospitale continued into modern hospital with spelling and stress stabilization.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- Guest accommodation and charitable residence developed into the institution for medical care familiar today.
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- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- The medical sense developed in the 15th century after the 14th-century English borrowing.
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