hospital
Portuguese, noun/os.piˈtaw/
hospital is spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-L (8 letters) and appears 120 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hospital is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hospital” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “local onde se recebem e se tratam doentes”.
What does hospital mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehospital
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. local onde se recebem e se tratam doentes
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hospital
- hospitais plural
- espital alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hospital?
- Brazil /os.piˈtaw/
- Brazil [os.piˈtaʊ̯]
- /oʃ.piˈtaw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hospital
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hospital in Portuguese?
hospital appears 120 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).