Etymology

neurohospitalist

Today it means: A hospitalist who looks after neurological patients Full definition →

English hospitalist ← Middle English hospital ← Old French hospita
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)neh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*snéh₁wr̥
  3. Ancient Greekνεῦρον (neûron)
  4. Ancient Greekνευρο- (neuro-)
  5. Englishneuro-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstis
  7. Proto-Indo-European*pótis
  8. Proto-Indo-European*gʰóstipotis
  9. Proto-Italic*hostipotis
  10. Latinhospes
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  13. Latinhospitālis
  14. Late Latinhospitāle
  15. Old Frenchhospita
  16. Middle Englishhospital
  17. Englishhospital
  18. Englishhospitalist
  19. English todayneurohospitalist

From neuro- + hospitalist.

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