nosocomial

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• Received-Pronunciation: nŏs'ə-kōʹmē-əl
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌnɒ.sə(ʊ)ˈkəʊ.mi.əl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌnəʊ-/
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• General-American: nŏs'ə-kōʹmē-əl
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• General-American: nō'sə-kōʹmē-əl
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• General-American: /ˌnɑ.səˈkoʊ.mi.əl/
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• General-American: /ˌnoʊ-/
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Learned borrowing from Late Latin nosocomīum (“hospital, infirmary”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Nosocomīum is borrowed from Ancient Greek νοσοκομεῖον (nosokomeîon, “hospital, infirmary”), from νοσοκομέω (nosokoméō, “to tend the sick”) + -εῖον (-eîon, suffix forming nouns denoting places); νοσοκομέω (nosokoméō) is from νόσος (nósos, “disease, illness, sickness”) (further etymology uncertain) + κομέω (koméō, “to take care of, look after, tend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kem(H)- (“to be tired; to exert oneself”)).

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: nosokomiaal — of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital
• Afrikaans: hospitaalinfeksie — of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital
• Finnish: nosokomiaalinen — of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital
• French: nosocomial — of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital
• German: nosokomial — of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital
• German: Krankenhaus- — of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital
• Hungarian: nozokomiális — of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital
• Kazakh: ауруханалық (auruxanalyq) — of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital
• Afrikaans: nosokomiaal — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital
• Catalan: nosocomial — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital
• Finnish: sairaala- — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital
• Finnish: nosokomiaalinen — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital
• French: nosocomial — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital
• Hungarian: kórházi — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital
• Italian: nosocomiale — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital
• Italian: ospedaliero — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital
• Spanish: nosocomial — of, relating to, or happening in a hospital