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medicus
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus.
Pronunciation
Noun
medicus m (plural medici, diminutive medicusje n, feminine medica)
Synonyms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: medikus
Latin
Etymology 1
From medeor (“heal, cure”) + -icus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛ.dɪ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛː.d̪i.kus]
Adjective
medicus (feminine medica, neuter medicum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
medicus m (genitive medicī); second declension
- a doctor, physician, surgeon
- Nuper erat medicus, nunc est vespillo Diaulus:
quod vespillo facit, fecerat et medicus.
(Lately was Diaulus a doctor, now he is an undertaker. What the undertaker now does the doctor too did before.) — Martial I.xlvii (translation by Walter Ker).
- Nuper erat medicus, nunc est vespillo Diaulus:
- medicine
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: mélicu
- Ancient borrowings
- Later borrowings:
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- Mēdicus
Adjective
mēdicus (feminine mēdica, neuter mēdicum); first/second-declension adjective
- Median, Median language
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “medicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “medicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "medicus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “medicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a philosopher, physician by profession: se philosophum, medicum (esse) profiteri
- to be a philosopher, physician by profession: se philosophum, medicum (esse) profiteri
- “medicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “medicus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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