spital

See also: Spital, špital, and špitál

English

Alternative forms

• spittle

Etymology

From Middle English spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle.

Noun

spital (plural spitals)

1. (historical) 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.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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 […]

See also

• hospital

Anagrams

• Pilats, atslip, pastil, plaits, silpat

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]

• Audio:

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Noun

spital n (plural spitale or spitaluri)

1. hospital

   Synonyms: bolniță, ospital

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