clínica

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See also: clinica and clinică

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

clínica f (plural clíniques)

  1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
  2. female equivalent of clínic

Adjective

clínica f sg

  1. feminine singular of clínic

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklinika/
  • Rhymes: -inika
  • Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca

Noun

clínica f (plural clínicas)

  1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)

Adjective

clínica

  1. feminine singular of clínico

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

From clínico (clinical).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca

Noun

clínica f (plural clínicas)

  1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
    • 1889, França Júnior, As Doutoras, 2nd act, 12th scene.
      A sua clínica desaparecerá, minha senhora, no dia em que as mulheres formarem-se às dúzias e aos centos.
      Your clinic will disappear, my lady, on the day that the women graduate by the dozens and by the hundreds.
  2. (uncountable) medicine; healthcare (the practice of treating disease)
    • 1927, Humberto de Campos, chapter 285, in A caridade, O Brasil Anedótico:
      O dr. Mateus Saraiva, que exerceu a clínica no Rio de Janeiro na primeira parte do século XVIII
      Doctor Mateus Saraiva, who pratised medicine in Rio de Janeiro in the first part of the 18th century.
    Synonym: medicina
  3. female equivalent of clínico

Adjective

clínica

  1. feminine singular of clínico

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin clinĭce, from Ancient Greek κλινική (klinikḗ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklinika/
  • Rhymes: -inika
  • Syllabification: clí‧ni‧ca

Noun

clínica f (plural clínicas)

  1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
  2. feminine of clínico

Adjective

clínica f sg

  1. feminine singular of clínico

Further reading