spitalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 spitel, an aphetic form, from Medieval Latin hospitāle.

名詞

spital (plural spitals)

1. (historical) A charitable house to receive and care for sick people, later distinguished from a hospital as being especially for those of a low class or meagre financial means.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 1, member 3:

     Put up a supplication to him in the name of a thousand orphans, an hospital, a spital, a prison, as he goes by, they cry out to him for aid, ride on, surdo narras, he cares not […]

参考

• hospital

アナグラム

• Pilats, atslip, pastil, plaits, silpat