hospice

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• US: /ˈhɑspɪs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒspɪs/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɒspɪs
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 S P AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French hospice, from Old French hospise, from Latin hospitium (“hospitality, an inn”). Doublet of hospitium.

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: hospies — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Afrikaans: hospitium — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Bulgarian: хоспис (hospis) — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Chinese Mandarin: 臨終關懷 /临终关怀 (línzhōng guānhuái) — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Finnish: saattohoito — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• French: hospice — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• German: Hospizdienst — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Indonesian: hospis — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Irish: ospís — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Italian: ospizio — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Italian: casa di cura — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Malay: hospis — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Persian: خستهخانه (xaste-xâne) — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Portuguese: cuidados paliativos — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Welsh: hosbis — provision of palliative care for the terminally ill
• Afrikaans: hospies — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Afrikaans: hospitium — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Bulgarian: хоспис (hospis) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Catalan: hospici — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Catalan: casa de beneficència — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Chinese Mandarin: 安養院 /安养院 (ānyǎngyuàn) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Dutch: hospice — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Finnish: saattokoti — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• French: hospice — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• German: Hospiz — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Greek: άσυλο ανιάτων (ásylo aniáton) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Hebrew: הוספיס (hóspis) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Hebrew: מרכז לטיפול תומך (merkáz letipúl tomékh) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Irish: ospís — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Italian: ospizio — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Italian: casa di cura — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Japanese: ホスピス (hosupisu) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Kazakh: хоспис (xospis) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Korean: 호스피스 (hoseupiseu) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Kyrgyz: хоспис (hospis) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Polish: hospicjum — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Russian: хо́спис (xóspis) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Slovene: hospic — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Spanish: hospicio — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Swedish: hospis — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Swedish: hospice — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Thai: สถานดูแลระยะสุดท้าย (sàtăan doolae ráyá sùttáai) — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill
• Welsh: hosbis — a facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill