malsanulejo
Esperanto
Etymology
From malsanulo (“sick person”) + -ejo (“place”), from malsana (“sick”) + -ulo, from mal- (“opposite of”) + sana (“healthy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /malsanuˈlejo/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ejo
- Syllabification: mal‧sa‧nu‧le‧jo
- Hyphenation: mal‧san‧ulejo
Noun
malsanulejo (accusative singular malsanulejon, plural malsanulejoj, accusative plural malsanulejojn)
- hospital
- Synonym: hospitalo
- 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:
- Nu, unu tagon oni vokis min por ke mi iru tuj al la malsanulejo, ĉar mia sesjara filino trafiĝis je terura trafik-akcidento.
- Well, one day they called me so that I go immediately to the hospital, because my six-year old daughter got caught in a terrible traffic accident.
Further reading
- “malsanulejo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
- “malsanulejo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
- Wells, John C. (1992), “san/a, hospital”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary[2], →ISBN, pages 140, 276
- Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “san-a”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary[3], →OL, page 361
- Motteau, Achille (1907), “san-a”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary[4], →OCLC, page 132