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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin empīricus.
Pronunciation
Noun
empiricus m (plural empirici, diminutive empiricusje n)
- empiricist
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ἐμπειρῐκός (empeirĭkós), which has in the plural the sense οἱ ἐμπειρικοί (hoi empeirikoí, “the Empiric school of physicians”).
Pronunciation
Noun
empīricus m (genitive empīricī); second declension
- an empirical physician, an empiric (a physician whose knowledge of medicine is derived from experience, observation, and practice only, as opposed to scientific theory)
45 BCE,
Cicero,
Academica 122:
- Corpora nostra non novimus, qui sint situs partium, quam vim quaeque pars habeat ignoramus; itaque medici ipsi, quorum intererat ea nosse, aperuerunt ut viderentur, nec eo tamen aiunt empirici notiora esse illa, quia possit fieri ut patefacta et detecta mutentur.
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Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “empīrĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “empiricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- empīrĭcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 587/1.
- “empīricus · a” on page 606/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)