hotel

See also: Hotel, hotèl, hótel, hôtel, and hoṭél

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Noun

hotel

2. Alternative letter-case form of Hotel of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Pere Marquette Hotel

Alternative forms

• hôtel (archaic)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin hospitālis

Old French ostel

Middle French hostel

French hôtelbor.

English hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostel and hospital.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hō-tĕl′, hō′tĕl, hō′təl
• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊˈtɛl/, /əʊˈtɛl/

    The British pronunciation omitting the initial /h/ is in imitation of the French hôtel and is now considered old-fashioned (unless of course the speaker always drops /h/).

  • (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /hɒˈtɛl/

• (General American); /hoʊˈtɛl/:

  (file)

• (Southern US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊ.tɛl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /hoːˈtɛl/
• (North India) IPA^(key): /ˈhoː.ʈəl/, /hoːˈʈɛːl/, /hoːˈʈeːl/
• (South India) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)oː.ʈəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl, -əʊtəl
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

Noun

hotel (plural hotels)

2. (now chiefly historical) A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France. [from 17th c.]
   • 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter 2, in The Age of Innocence, New York: D. Appleton and Company:

     [T]he cream-coloured house (supposed to be modelled on the private hotels of the Parisian aristocracy) was there[.]

4. An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. [from 17th c.]
   • 1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165,

     When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing […] .

   • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 1 November 2020, page 28:

     Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.

   • 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 26 February 2025:

     Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.

5. (Australia, western Canada) A public house or pub.
6. (South Asia) A restaurant; any dining establishment.
8. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
9. The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
10. The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

Derived terms

• antihotel
• apartelle
• aparthotel
• apartment hotel
• apartotel
• asylum hotel
• autohotel
• bee hotel
• boatel, botel
• boutique hotel
• bug hotel
• capsule hotel
• carrier hotel
• casino hotel
• cat hotel
• condo hotel, condo-hotel
• condotel
• crossbar hotel
• crowbar hotel
• eco hotel, ecohotel
• ecotel
• floatel, flotel
• ghost hotel
• graybar hotel
• green hotel
• grippy sock hotel
• HoReCa
• hotel-apartment
• hoteldom
• hotelish
• hotelize
• hotelkeeper
• hotelkeeping
• hotelless
• hotellike
• hotelling
• hotel load
• hotelman
• hotel pan
• hotel room
• hotelside
• hotelward, hotelwards
• hotelware
• hotelwide
• hydro hotel
• infinite hotel paradox
• insect hotel
• love hotel
• medi-hotel
• megahotel
• mental hotel
• military hotel
• motel
• motor hotel
• multihotel
• nonhotel
• no-tell hotel
• officetel
• Patel hotel
• pet hotel
• pod hotel
• public hotel
• superhotel
• welfare hotel
• wellness hotel
• where can I find a hotel
• workingman's hotel
• workingmen's hotel

Related terms

• hostel

Descendants

• → Amharic: ሆቴል (hotel)
• → Assamese: হোটেল (hütel)
• → Bengali: হোটেল (hōṭel)
• → Burmese: ဟိုတယ် (huitai)
• → Hindi: होटल (hoṭal)
• → Japanese: ホテル (hoteru)
• → Khmer: ហោតិល (haotəl)
• → Korean: 호텔 (hotel)
• → Malay: hotel
• → Māori: hōtēra
• → Nepali: होटल (hoṭal)
• → Oromo: hoteela
• → Persian: هوتَل (hôtal) (Dari)
• → Swahili: hoteli
• → Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ōṭṭal), ஹோட்டல் (hōṭṭal)
• → Thai: โฮเต็ล (hoo-dtel)
• → Tigrinya: ሆቴል (hotel)
• → Tok Pisin: hotel
• → Ukrainian: готе́ль (hotélʹ)
• → Ulithian: hooteel’
• → Urdu: ہوٹل (hoṭal)

Translations

establishment providing accommodation

• Abkhaz: асасааирҭа (asasaajrta)
• Afrikaans: hotel
• Albanian: hotel (sq) m
• Amharic: ሆቴል (hotel)
• Arabic: فُنْدُق (ar) m (funduq), نُزْل m (nuzl), أُوتِيل m (ʔōtēl)

  Algerian Arabic: لوتيل (lotil)

  Egyptian Arabic: فُنْدُق m (fundoʔ), أُوتِيل m (ʔotel), (archaic) لوكاندة f (lukanda), (archaic) بنسيون m (bansiyon)

  Hijazi Arabic: فُنْدُق m (fundug)

  Moroccan Arabic: أوطيل m (ʔuṭil), فندق m (fandaq)

  South Levantine Arabic: فندق m (funduʔ), أوتيل m (ʔōtēl)

• Armenian: հյուրանոց (hy) (hyuranocʻ)
• Aromanian: utel m
• Assamese: হোটেল (hütel)
• Asturian: hotel (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: mehmanxana, otel
• Bashkir: ҡунаҡхана (qonaqxana)
• Basque: hotel (eu), ostatu
• Belarusian: гатэ́ль m (hatélʹ), гасці́ніца f (hascínica), гасьці́ніца f (hasʹcínica)
• Bengali: হোটেল (bn) (hōṭel)
• Bulgarian: хоте́л m (hotél)
• Burmese: ဟိုတယ် (my) (huitai)
• Carpathian Rusyn: готе́л m (hotél)
• Catalan: hotel (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏧᏂᏒᏍᏗᎢ (tsunisvsdii)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 旅館 / 旅馆 (leoi⁵ gun²), 酒店 (zau² dim³)

  Dungan: кифон (kifon)

  Hakka: 旅館 / 旅馆 (lî-kón, lî-kòn)

  Hokkien: 旅館 / 旅馆 (zh-min-nan) (lí-koán, lú-koán), 旅社 (zh-min-nan) (lú-siā, lír-siǎ, lí-siā, lír-siā)

  Mandarin: 賓館 / 宾馆 (zh) (bīnguǎn), 酒店 (zh) (jiǔdiàn) [fancy one, with its own restaurant], 旅館 / 旅馆 (zh) (lǚguǎn) [(cheaper one; motel, etc.], 飯店 / 饭店 (zh) (fàndiàn), 招待所 (zh) (zhāodàisuǒ), 旅社 (zh) (lǚshè)

  Wu: 飯店 / 饭店

• Czech: hotel (cs) m
• Danish: hotel (da) n
• Dhivehi: ހޮޓާ (hoṭā)
• Dutch: hotel (nl) n
• Esperanto: hotelo (eo)
• Estonian: hotell (et)
• Extremaduran: otel m, posá f
• Fijian: otela (fj)
• Finnish: hotelli (fi)
• French: hôtel (fr) m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: (Mooring) hotäl

• Galician: hotel (gl) m
• Georgian: სასტუმრო (sasṭumro)
• German: Hotel (de) n, Gasthof (de) m
• Greek: ξενοδοχείο (el) n (xenodocheío)
• Greenlandic: hoteli
• Gujarati: હોટેલ (hoṭel), હોટલ (hoṭal)
• Haitian Creole: otèl
• Hausa: hotel
• Hawaiian: hōkele
• Hebrew: מָלוֹן (he) m (malón)
• Hindi: होटल (hi) m (hoṭal), मेहमानख़ाना m (mehmānxānā)
• Hungarian: szálloda (hu), hotel (hu)
• Icelandic: hótel (is) n, gistihús (is) n, gistiheimili (is) n
• Ido: hotelo (io)
• Indonesian: hotel (id)
• Irish: óstán m
• Italian: albergo (it) m, hotel (it) m
• Japanese: ホテル (ja) (hoteru), 宿 (ja) (やど, yado), 旅館 (ja) (りょかん, ryokan) (traditional)
• Kannada: ಹೋಟೆಲು (hōṭelu)
• Kazakh: қонақ үй (qonaq üy), мейманхана (meymanxana), отель (otelʹ)
• Khmer: សណ្ឋាគារ (km) (sɑnthaakiə), ហោតិល (km) (haotəl), អូតែល (ʼoutael), ផ្ទះសំណាក់ (phtĕəh sɑmnak), សណ្ឋាគារដ្ឋាន (sɑnthaakiərĕəʼthaan)
• Korean: 호텔 (ko) (hotel), 여관(旅館) (ko) (yeogwan), 려관(旅館) (ko) (ryeogwan) (North Korea), 객사(客舍) (gaeksa) (common in North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ûtêl (ku), dîwanxane (ku), mêvanxane (ku), otêl (ku), hotêl (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мейманкана (ky) (meymankana), гостиница (ky) (gostinitsa), отель (ky) (otel), конокчу (konokcu)
• Lao: ໂຮງແຮມ (lo) (hōng hǣm)
• Latin: deversorium n
• Latvian: viesnīca f, hotelis m
• Lithuanian: viešbutis (lt) m
• Lü: ᦷᦣᧂᦶᦃᧅᧈᦶᦂᧁᧉ (hongẋaek¹k̇aew²)
• Luxembourgish: Hotel (lb) m
• Macedonian: хоте́л (mk) m (hotél)
• Malagasy: hotely (mg)
• Malay: hotel (ms)
• Malayalam: ഹോട്ടൽ (hōṭṭal), ഹൊട്ടേൽ (hoṭṭēl)
• Maltese: lukanda (mt) m
• Māori: hōtēra
• Marathi: हॉटेल (hŏṭel)
• Mauritian Creole: lotel
• Melanau:

  Central Melanau: util

• Mòcheno: birtshaus n
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зочид буудал (zočid buudal)

• Navajo: tsáskʼeh bá hooghan
• Nepali: होटल (hoṭal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hotell (no) n

  Nynorsk: hotell n

• Odia: ହୋଟେଲ୍ (hoṭel)
• Old English: gasthus n
• Oromo: hoteela
• Pannonian Rusyn: готел m (hotel)
• Pashto: هوټل (ps) m (hoṭal), مهمانخانه f (mehmānxāna)
• Persian:

  Dari: هوتَل (hōtal), مِهْمَانْخَانَه (mihmānxāna)

  Iranian Persian: هُتِل (hotel), مِهْمانْخانِه (mehmânxâne) (guesthouse)

• Plautdietsch: Hotel n
• Polish: hotel (pl) m
• Portuguese: hotel (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਹੋਟਲ (hoṭal)
• Réunion Creole French: lotèl
• Romani: hotèlo m
• Romanian: hotel (ro) m
• Russian: гости́ница (ru) f (gostínica), оте́ль (ru) m (otɛ́lʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-òsta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хо̀тел m

  Latin: hòtel (sh) m

• Sicilian: albergu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: හෝටලය (hōṭalaya), නවාතැන (nawātæna)
• Slovak: hotel (sk) m
• Slovene: hotel (sl) m
• Southern Altai: гостиница (gostinica), отель (otelʹ), коночылык (konočïlïk)
• Spanish: hotel (es) m, albergue (es) m
• Swahili: hoteli (sw)
• Swedish: hotell (sv) n
• Tagalog: hotel, otel
• Tajik: меҳмонхона (mehmonxona), ҳотел (tg) (hotel), отел (otel)
• Tamil: ஓட்டல் (ta) (ōṭṭal), ஹோட்டல் (hōṭṭal)
• Tatar: кунакханә (tt) (qunaqxanä)
• Telugu: హోటల్ (hōṭal)
• Thai: โรงแรม (th) (roong-rɛɛm), โฮเต็ล (th) (hoo-dtel)
• Tibetan: འགྲུལ་ཁང ('grul khang), མགྲོན་ཁང (mgron khang)
• Tigrinya: ሆቴል (hotel)
• Tok Pisin: haus pasindia
• Turkish: otel (tr), konakçı (tr)
• Turkmen: myhmanhana, otel, gostinisa
• Udmurt: кунокуа (kunokua)
• Ukrainian: готе́ль (uk) m (hotélʹ), гости́ниця f (hostýnycja)
• Ulithian: hooteel’
• Urdu: ہوٹَل m (hoṭal), مِہْمان خانَہ m (mihmān xāna)
• Uyghur: مېھمانخانا (mëhmanxana), ساراي (saray)
• Uzbek: mehmonxona (uz), gostinitsa, otel (uz)
• Vietnamese: khách sạn (vi) (客棧), lữ quán (vi) (旅館), ô ten
• Volapük: lotidöp (vo)
• Welsh: gwesty (cy)
• Yiddish: האָטעל m (hotel)
• Zhuang: lijgvanj, hekdiemq, fanden

red property in the game of Monopoly

• Basque: hotel (eu)
• Catalan: hotel (ca) m
• Italian: albergo (it) f
• Macedonian: хоте́л (mk) m (hotél)
• Swedish: hotell (sv) n

Australian/NZ English: public house

See also

• inn
• motel

Anagrams

• Holte, Thole, helot, hetol, lothe, thole

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔtɛl/

Noun

hotel m (plural hotele, definite hoteli, definite plural hotelet)

1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hotel	hoteli	hotele	hotelet
accusative		hotelin
dative	hoteli	hotelit	hoteleve	hoteleve
ablative			hotelesh

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈtel/ [oˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteles)

1. hotel

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [uˈte̞l]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [oˈtəl]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈtɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [oˈtel]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

hotel m (plural hotels)

1. hotel

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin hospitālis

Old French ostel

Middle French hostel

French hôtelbor.

Czech hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦotɛl]

• Audio:

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Noun

hotel m inan

1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	hotel	hotely
genitive	hotelu	hotelů
dative	hotelu	hotelům
accusative	hotel	hotely
vocative	hotele	hotely
locative	hotelu	hotelích, hotelech
instrumental	hotelem	hotely

Derived terms

• hotýlek

Further reading

• “hotel”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “hotel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “hotel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

From French hôtel.

Noun

hotel n (singular definite hotellet, plural indefinite hoteller)

1. hotel

Further reading

• “hotel” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Alternative forms

• hôtel (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Latin hospitālis. Doublet of hospitaal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦoːˈtɛl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ho‧tel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

hotel n (plural hotels, diminutive hotelletje n)

1. hotel

Derived terms

• badhotel
• berghotel
• bijenhotel
• boetiekhotel
• botel
• familiehotel
• hotelbed
• hotelbediende
• hoteleigenaar
• hotelgast
• hotelhouder
• hotelier
• hotelkamer
• hotelketen
• hotellobby
• hotelmanager
• hotelreservering
• hotelschool
• strandhotel

Related terms

• motel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hotel
• → Aukan: oteli
• → Indonesian: hotel
• → West Frisian: hotel

Anagrams

• holte

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈtɛl/ [ɔˈt̪ɛɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteis)

1. hotel

   Hotel de cinco estrelas..

   Five-star hotel..

Further reading

• “hotel”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hotel, from French hôtel, from Old French hostel, from Latin hospitāle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhotɛl]
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

hotel (plural hotelek)

1. hotel

   Synonyms: szálloda, szálló

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	hotel	hotelek
accusative	hotelt	hoteleket
dative	hotelnek	hoteleknek
instrumental	hotellel	hotelekkel
causal-final	hotelért	hotelekért
translative	hotellé	hotelekké
terminative	hotelig	hotelekig
essive-formal	hotelként	hotelekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hotelben	hotelekben
superessive	hotelen	hoteleken
adessive	hotelnél	hoteleknél
illative	hotelbe	hotelekbe
sublative	hotelre	hotelekre
allative	hotelhez	hotelekhez
elative	hotelből	hotelekből
delative	hotelről	hotelekről
ablative	hoteltől	hotelektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	hotelé	hoteleké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hoteléi	hotelekéi

Possessive forms of hotel

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hotelem	hoteljeim
2nd person sing.	hoteled	hoteljeid
3rd person sing.	hotelje	hoteljei
1st person plural	hotelünk	hoteljeink
2nd person plural	hoteletek	hoteljeitek
3rd person plural	hoteljük	hoteljeik

Less commonly:

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	hotel	hotelok
accusative	hotelt	hotelokat
dative	hotelnak	hoteloknak
instrumental	hotellal	hotelokkal
causal-final	hotelért	hotelokért
translative	hotellá	hotelokká
terminative	hotelig	hotelokig
essive-formal	hotelként	hotelokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hotelban	hotelokban
superessive	hotelon	hotelokon
adessive	hotelnál	hoteloknál
illative	hotelba	hotelokba
sublative	hotelra	hotelokra
allative	hotelhoz	hotelokhoz
elative	hotelból	hotelokból
delative	hotelról	hotelokról
ablative	hoteltól	hoteloktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	hotelé	hoteloké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hoteléi	hotelokéi

Possessive forms of hotel

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hotelom	hoteljaim
2nd person sing.	hotelod	hoteljaid
3rd person sing.	hotelja	hoteljai
1st person plural	hotelunk	hoteljaink
2nd person plural	hotelotok	hoteljaitok
3rd person plural	hoteljuk	hoteljaik

Derived terms

Compound words

• hotelcímke
• hotelportás
• hotelszámla
• hotelszoba
• rovarhotel

Further reading

• hotel in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch hotel, from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel; inherited from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable; pertaining to a host or guest”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhotɛl/ [ˈho.t̪ɛl]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -otɛl
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

Noun

hotèl (plural hotel-hotel)

1. hotel, an establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• perhotelan [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)

Compound words

• hotel apartemen
• hotel apung
• hotel bandar
• hotel bandara
• hotel berbintang
• hotel bisnis
• hotel bujet
• hotel butik
• hotel kapsul
• hotel kasino
• hotel keluarga
• hotel kota
• hotel mandiri
• hotel melati
• hotel pantai
• hotel pilgrim
• hotel pribadi
• hotel prodeo
• hotel residensial
• hotel resor
• hotel semiresidensial
• hotel tira
• hotel transit

Related terms

• hostel

Further reading

• “hotel”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Alternative forms

• otello

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel (“hostel”, “inn”), from Old French ostel (“shelter”), from Latin hospitālis (“pertaining to hospitality”). Doublet of ospedale and ospitale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈtɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: ho‧tèl

Noun

hotel m (invariable)

1. hotel(s)
2. the letter H in the Italian spelling alphabet

Synonyms

• albergo

Related terms

• ostello

Descendants

• → Cimbrian: hotèl

Malay

Etymology

From English hotel.

Noun

hotel (plural hotel-hotel or hotel²)

1. hotel (establishment that provides accommodation for paying guests)

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin hospitālis

Old French ostel

Middle French hostel

French hôtelbor.

Polish hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hostel and szpital.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔ.tɛl/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ɔtɛl
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

Noun

hotel m inan (diminutive hotelik)

1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel

	singular	plural
nominative	hotel	hotele
genitive	hotelu	hoteli/hotelów
dative	hotelowi	hotelom
accusative	hotel	hotele
instrumental	hotelem	hotelami
locative	hotelu	hotelach
vocative	hotelu	hotele

Derived terms

adjective

• hotelowy

Related terms

adjective

• hotelarski

nouns

• hotelarka
• hotelarstwo
• hotelarz
• hoteling

Further reading

• “hotel”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “hotel”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle. Doublet of hospital and hospedal.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈtɛw/ [oˈtɛʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈtɛl/ [ɔˈtɛɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈtɛl/ [ɔˈtɛɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈtɛ.li/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

Noun

hotel m (plural hotéis)

1. hotel

Further reading

• “hotel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Hotel

Etymology

Borrowed from French hôtel, from Latin hospitale. Doublet of spital.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hoˈtel/

• Audio:

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Noun

hotel n (plural hoteluri)

1. hotel

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	hotel	hotelul	hotele	hotelele
genitive-dative	hotel	hotelului	hotele	hotelelor
vocative	hotelule		hotelelor

Related terms

• hotelier

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xǒtel/
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

Noun

hòtel m inan (Cyrillic spelling хо̀тел)

1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel

	singular	plural
nominative	hòtel	hoteli
genitive	hotèla	hotela
dative	hotelu	hotelima
accusative	hotel	hotele
vocative	hotele	hoteli
locative	hotelu	hotelima
instrumental	hotelom	hotelima

Slovak

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin hospitālis

Old French ostel

Middle French hostel

French hôtelbor.

Slovak hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔtel/, [ˈɦɔtel]
• Rhymes: -ɔtel
• Hyphenation: ho‧tel

• Audio (Bratislava):

  (file)

Noun

hotel m inan (genitive singular hotela, nominative plural hotely, genitive plural hotelov, declension pattern of stroj)

1. hotel

Declension

Declension of hotel
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	hotel	hotely
genitive	hotela	hotelov
dative	hotelu	hotelom
accusative	hotel	hotely
locative	hoteli	hoteloch
instrumental	hotelom	hotelmi

References

• “hotel”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Slovene

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French hôtel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɔtɛ̀ːl/

Noun

hotél m anim

1. hotel

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	hotél
gen. sing.	hotéla
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	hotél	hotéla	hotéli
genitive (rodȋlnik)	hotéla	hotélov	hotélov
dative (dajȃlnik)	hotélu	hotéloma	hotélom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	hotéla	hotéla	hotéle
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	hotélu	hotélih	hotélih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	hotélom	hotéloma	hotéli

Further reading

• “hotel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

hóteł

1. masculine singular l-participle of hoteti

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin hospitālis

Old French ostel

Middle French hostel

French hôtelbor.

Spanish hotel

Borrowed from French hôtel. Doublet of hospital and hostal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈtel/ [oˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

Noun

hotel m (plural hoteles)

1. hotel
   • 2024 October 17, CNN, “En imágenes: algunos episodios de la vida de Liam Payne”, in CNN en Español‎^[5]:

     El cantante Liam Payne murió a los 31 años tras caer desde el tercer piso de un hotel de Buenos Aires, Argentina, informó la policía local.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• hotelero

See also

See also

• albergue m
• casa de huéspedes f
• hospedaje m
• hostal m
• pensión m
• posada f

Further reading

• “hotel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis

Proto-Indo-European *pótis

Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis

Proto-Italic *hostipotis

Latin hospes

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin hospitālis

Old French ostel

Middle French hostel

French hôtelbor.

English hotelbor.

Tagalog hotel

Borrowed from English hotel, borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Latin hospitālis, from hospes (“host; guest, stranger”) + -ālis. Doublet of otel and ospital.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /hoˈtel/ [hoˈt̪ɛl]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ho‧tel

Noun

hotél (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜆᜒᜎ᜔)

1. hotel

   Synonym: otel

Related terms

• apartel

Further reading

• “hotel”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “hotel”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Borrowed from English hotel.

Noun

hotel

1. hotel

Vilamovian

Etymology

From French hôtel.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

hotel ?

1. hotel