sanatorium
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See also: Sanatorium
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- sanitarium (US)
Etymology
[edit]Haplology from Latin sanatus (past participle of sānō (“to cure, to heal”)) + Latin -torium. Alternatively, alteration of sanitarium influenced by words like curatorium and moratorium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌsænəˈtɔɹiəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]sanatorium (plural sanatoriums or sanatoria)
- An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.
- 1908 February 19, Jack London, “The Bishop”, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 188:
- [H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.
Descendants
[edit]- → Dutch: sanatorium
- → Japanese: サナトリウム (sanatoriumu)
- → Korean: 새너토리엄 (saeneotorieom)
Translations
[edit]institution that treats chronic diseases and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An internationalism, ultimately or directly from English sanatorium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sanatorium n (plural sanatoria, diminutive sanatoriumpje n)
- sanatorium
- Synonym: herstellingsoord
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin sānātus, past participle of sānō (“to cure, to heal”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sanatorium m (plural sanatoriums)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sanatorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]sanatorium n (definite singular sanatoriet, indefinite plural sanatorier, definite plural sanatoria or sanatoriene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]sanatorium n (definite singular sanatoriet, indefinite plural sanatorium, definite plural sanatoria)
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