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ospidéal

ospidéal

Irish

Alternative forms

óspaidéal

Noun

ospidéal m ‎(genitive singular ospidéil, nominative plural ospidéil)

hospital (building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying)

Declension

Declension of ospidéal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ospidéal	ospidéil
Vocative	a ospidéil	a ospidéala
Genitive	ospidéil	ospidéal
Dative	ospidéal	ospidéil

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-ospidéal	na hospidéil
Genitive	an ospidéil	na n-ospidéal
Dative	leis an ospidéal don ospidéal	leis na hospidéil

Derived terms

Terms derived from ospidéal

barda ospidéil ‎(“hospital ward”)
ospidéal ceantair ‎(“district hospital”)

ospidéal fiabhrais ‎(“fever hospital”)
ospidéal leithlise ‎(“isolation hospital”)

ospidéal machaire ‎(“field hospital”)
ospidéal máithreachais ‎(“maternity hospital”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ospidéal	n-ospidéal	hospidéal	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"ospidéal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“ospitél” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.