"spital" meaning in English

See spital in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: spitals [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|spitel}} Middle English spitel, {{der|en|ML.|hospitāle}} Medieval Latin hospitāle Head templates: {{en-noun}} spital (plural spitals)
  1. (historical) A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means. Tags: historical Synonyms: spittle Related terms: hospital
    Sense id: en-spital-en-noun-vymi9dFp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for spital meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "spitel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English spitel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "hospitāle"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin hospitāle",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spitals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spital (plural spitals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means."
      ],
      "id": "en-spital-en-noun-vymi9dFp",
      "links": [
        [
          "hospital",
          "hospital"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hospital"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "spittle"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spital"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "spitel"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English spitel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "hospitāle"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin hospitāle",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spitals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spital (plural spitals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hospital"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hospital",
          "hospital"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spittle"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spital"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.