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hospitaller en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A person who attends visitors in a religious institution.
   • […] 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 […] 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 39:
2. A member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals.

Forms

Deriveds

Grand Hospitaller · Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God · Knight Hospitaller

Translations (2)

ru госпиталье́р (member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals) · hy հիվանդախնամ (member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals)