hôtel-Dieu
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French hôtel-Dieu.
Noun
edithôtel-Dieu (plural hôtels-Dieu or hôtel-Dieus)
- (historical) The chief hospital in a French city.
- 2017, Alison Forrestal, Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform:
- When she arrived in each town, she checked whether a Hôtel-Dieu existed, and visited the five that she found.
References
edit- A Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms[1], 1972, page 240
French
editEtymology
editFrom Old French ostel Deu (literally “God’s hostel”), stressing the charitable nature (although hospitals where then invariably religious). The construction, instead of expected hôtel de Dieu, is a relict of an Old French oblique case form in genitive function; another such example is Fête-Dieu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithôtel-Dieu m (plural hôtels-Dieu)
- a name borne by certain hospitals of long tradition, most notably the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
- (history) any caritative hospice or hospital
References
edit- “hôtel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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