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noun, masculine

hôpital

/o.pi.tal/

noun, masculine/o.pi.tal/plural: hôpitaux

hospital

Related: c'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité, hôpital ambulant, hôpital psychiatrique

Inherited from Middle French hospital, from Old French hospital (12th c.), a borrowing from Late Latin hospitāle (“hospital, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hôtel.