medicus

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeː.diˌkʏs/
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  • 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.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative medicus medica medicum medicī medicae medica
Genitive medicī medicae medicī medicōrum medicārum medicōrum
Dative medicō medicō medicīs
Accusative medicum medicam medicum medicōs medicās medica
Ablative medicō medicā medicō medicīs
Vocative medice medica medicum medicī medicae medica

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).
  2. medicine
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative medicus medicī
Genitive medicī medicōrum
Dative medicō medicīs
Accusative medicum medicōs
Ablative medicō medicīs
Vocative medice medicī

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Mēdus (“Mede”) +‎ -icus

Alternative forms

Adjective

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

  1. Median, Median language
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mēdicus mēdica mēdicum mēdicī mēdicae mēdica
Genitive mēdicī mēdicae mēdicī mēdicōrum mēdicārum mēdicōrum
Dative mēdicō mēdicō mēdicīs
Accusative mēdicum mēdicam mēdicum mēdicōs mēdicās mēdica
Ablative mēdicō mēdicā mēdicō mēdicīs
Vocative mēdice mēdica mēdicum mēdicī mēdicae mēdica
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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