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.