Where does “hospitalization” come from?
Hospitalization derives from English hospital combined with the English suffix -ize, from Latin hospitalis meaning "of a guest," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gʰóstis meaning "guest" or "host."
hospitalization (English): The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of...
Definitions
- The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of...
Ancestry of “hospitalization”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | hospitalize | To send to hospital; to admit to hospital; To... |
| 2 | English | -ation | An action or process; The result of an action or... |
| 3 | Middle English | -acioun | Forms nouns denoting an action, act, or doing,... |
| 4 | Old French | -ation | ation |
| 5 | Latin | -ātiō | — |
| 6 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 7 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 8 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 9 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 10 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 11 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 12 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |