hospitalist

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstis
2. Proto-Indo-European*pótis
3. Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstipotis
4. Proto-Italic*hostipotis
5. Latinhospes
6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
8. Latinhospitālis
9. Late Latinhospitāle
10. Old Frenchhospita
11. Middle Englishhospital
12. Englishhospital
13. English todayhospitalist

From hospital + -ist. The “physician” sense was coined by Robert M. Wachter and Lee Goldman in a 1996 article in The New England Journal of Medicine.

First known use, by meaning

• from c. 1995 A physician who specializes in the care of hospital inpatients.