Автор: dist (83.102.161.---)
Дата: 20-09-04 17:51
[a. OF. hospital, mod.F. hôpital, ad. med.L. hospit{amac}le place of reception for guests, neut. sing. of hospit{amac}lis (see next). Of this word, HOSTEL and HOTEL are doublets, and SPITAL an aphetized form.]
1. A house or hostel for the reception and entertainment of pilgrims, travellers, and strangers; a hospice. Hence, one of the establishments of the Knights Hospitallers.
c1300 Beket 84 Ther is nouth an hospital arerd of Seint Thomas.
c1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. (1810) 135 To temples in Acres he quath fiue {th}ousand marke, & fiue thousand to {th}e hospitale.
c1400 MANDEVILLE (Roxb.) x. 40 Before {th}e kirke..es a grete hospitale..of whilk {th}e hospitalleres hase {th}aire first fundacion.
1500 Melusine xxi. 122 How they chaced two galleyes of the hospytal of Rodes.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 24 §2 The said William Weston or any of his bretherne or confreers of the said Hospitall or house of Sainct John of Hierusalem in England.
1598 HAKLUYT Voy. I. 102 (R.) The countrey of Prussia, which the Dutch knights of the order of Saint Maries hospitale of Jerusalem haue of late wholly conquered and subdued.
1765 H. WALPOLE Otranto iii. (1798) 52 An adjacent hospital founded by the princess Hippolita for the reception of pilgrims.
Обращаю внимание, что "церковь (кирке) была большим госпиталем".
А также, что HOTEL - это сокращенный вариант того же хоспиталя=хосписа.
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