Hostel

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Middle English (in the general sense ‘lodging, place to stay’) : from Old French, from medieval Latin hospitale (see hospital).


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From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale(“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis(“hospitable”) itself from hospes(“host”) + -alis(“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Obsolete from the 16th to 18th centuries, until it was revived by Walter Scott.


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hostel (n.)

early 13c., "inn, house of entertainment," from Old French ostel, hostel "house, home, dwelling; inn, lodgings, shelter" (11c., Modern French hôtel), from Medieval Latin hospitale "inn; large house" (see hospital). Obsolete after 16c., revived 1808, along with hostelry by Sir Walter Scott. Youth hostel is recorded by 1931.