The story
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstis
- Proto-Indo-European*pótis
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstipotis
- Proto-Italic*hostipotis
- Latinhospes
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinhospitālis
- Late Latinhospitāle
- Old Frenchhospita
- Middle Englishhospital
- English todayhospital
From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).
Words from the same roots
Latinhospitālis all →
hotelhostel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.