Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hospitaller

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables: hos-pi-taller
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who attends visitors in a religious institution.

noun

A member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals.

Example Sentences

"[…] if the celestial gods do not harken to our cry, we will perish by the noose and fare to the god of the nether world, the great hospitaller of the dead […]"

Etymology

From Middle English hospiteler, from Middle French hospitalier; equivalent to hospital + -er. Piecewise doublet of hosteller.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: hospiteler, hospitalier

Inflected Forms

hospitallers (plural) hospitaler (alternative)

Phrases

Knight Hospitaller Grand Hospitaller Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God

Questions

What does hospitaller mean?: A person who attends visitors in a religious institution.
Where does hospitaller come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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