hotel: [17] Ultimately, hotel and hospital are the same word, but they have diverged widely over the centuries. Both go back to medieval Latin hospitāle ‘place where guests are received, hospice’, but this developed in two different ways in Old French. One branch led with little change to English hospital, but a reduced form hostel also emerged (borrowed by English as hostel [13]).
Its modern French descendant is hôtel, from which English gets hotel (originally used in the sense ‘large residence’, as in the French hôtel de ville ‘town hall’, but since the 18th century increasingly restricted to its present-day sense). Other contributions made to English by Old French hostel are the derivatives hostelry [14] and ostler [13], originally (as hosteler) ‘someone who receives guests’ but since the 14th century used for someone who looks after horses at an inn. => hospital, host, hostel, hostelry, ostler
hotel (n.)
1640s, "public official residence," from French hôtel, Old French hostel "a lodging" (11c.), from Medieval Latin hospitale "inn" (see hostel). Modern sense of "an inn of the better sort" is first recorded 1765.
雙語例句
1. The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.
賓館正好坐落在商街的中段。
來自柯林斯例句
2. His team-mates opened hotel windows, shouting "Jump!" and somewhat less printable banter.
他的隊友打開了酒店的窗戶，大叫著“跳！”，還開了一些上不了台麵的玩笑。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Free room and board are provided for all hotel staff.
賓館的所有員工都可享受免費膳宿。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The Atlantic coast is within sight of the hotel.