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Etymology

From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeː.diˌkʏs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧cus

Noun

medicus m (plural medici, diminutive medicusje n, feminine medica)

  1. doctor, physician

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: medikus

Latin

Etymology 1

From medeor (heal, cure) + -icus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

medicus (feminine medica, neuter medicum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. healing, curative, medical
  2. magic
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

medicus m (genitive medicī); second declension

  1. 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).
    Medice, cura teipsum.(Lucas 4:23)
    Physician, heal thyself.(Luke 4:23)
  2. medicine
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Mēdus (Mede) + -icus

Alternative forms

  • Mēdicus

Adjective

mēdicus (feminine mēdica, neuter mēdicum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. 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
  • 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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