ospidéal

Irish

Alternative forms

• óspaidéal

Etymology

From Middle Irish ospitél (compare Scottish Gaelic ospadal), from Anglo-Norman ospitel, from Old French hospital, from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɔsˠpʲəˈdʲeːl̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɔsˠpʲədʲeːlˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌsˠpʲədʲælˠ/

Noun

ospidéal m (genitive singular ospidéil, nominative plural ospidéil)

1. hospital (building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying)

Declension

Declension of ospidéal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ospidéal ospidéil vocative a ospidéil a ospidéala genitive ospidéil ospidéal dative ospidéal ospidéil forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-ospidéal na hospidéil genitive an ospidéil na n-ospidéal dative leis an ospidéal don ospidéal leis na hospidéil

Derived terms

• ospidéal ceantair (“district hospital”)
• ospidéal machaire (“field hospital”)
• ospidéal fiabhrais (“fever hospital”)
• ospidéal máithreachais (“maternity hospital”)
• ospidéal leithlise (“isolation hospital”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ospidéal

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ospidéal	n-ospidéal	hospidéal	t-ospidéal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ospidéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ospitél”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ospidéal”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ospidéal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024