Meanings
plural hospitallers · alternative hospitaler
- A person who attends visitors in a religious institution.
[…] if the celestial gods do not harken to our cry, we will perish by the noose and fare to the god of the nether world, the great hospitaller of the dead […]
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 39 - A member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals.
Origin
- Middle Frenchhospitalier
- Middle Englishhospiteler
- Englishhospitaller
From Middle English hospiteler, from Middle French hospitalier; equivalent to hospital + -er. Piecewise doublet of hosteller.
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Russian госпиталье́р
- госпиталье́р (gospitalʹjér)member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals
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