clinicus

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Latin

FWOTD – 6 January 2016

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “the bed”). See also clīnicē.

Pronunciation

Noun

clīnicus m (genitive clīnicī); second declension

  1. (post-classical) a physician who tends to patients who are bedridden
  2. (post-classical) a bearer of the bier, sexton, gravedigger
  3. (Late Latin) a patient who is bedridden
  4. (Late Latin) one who is baptized when ill or infirm

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative clīnicus clīnicī
genitive clīnicī clīnicōrum
dative clīnicō clīnicīs
accusative clīnicum clīnicōs
ablative clīnicō clīnicīs
vocative clīnice clīnicī

Descendants

  • French: clinique
  • German: Klinik

References

  • “clīnĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • clinicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “clinicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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