hôtel-Dieu
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French hôtel-Dieu.
Noun
[edit]hôtel-Dieu (plural hôtels-Dieu or hôtel-Dieus)
- (historical) The chief hospital in a French city.
- 2017, Alison Forrestal, Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform:
- When she arrived in each town, she checked whether a Hôtel-Dieu existed, and visited the five that she found.
References
[edit]- A Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms[1], 1972, page 240
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French ostel Deu (literally “God’s hostel”), stressing the charitable nature (although hospitals where then invariably religious). The construction, instead of expected hôtel de Dieu, is a relict of an Old French oblique case form in genitive function; another such example is Fête-Dieu.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hôtel-Dieu m (plural hôtels-Dieu)
- a name borne by certain hospitals of long tradition, most notably the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
- (history) any caritative hospice or hospital
References
[edit]- “hôtel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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