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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin therapeuticus (“curing, healing”), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “one who waits on another, an attendant”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te.raˈpɛw.ti.ko/
- Rhymes: -ɛwtiko
- Hyphenation: te‧ra‧pèu‧ti‧co
Adjective
terapeutico (feminine terapeutica, masculine plural terapeutici, feminine plural terapeutiche)
- (medicine) therapeutic
- Synonym: terapico
Further reading
- terapeutico in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- terapeutico in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- terapeutico in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- terapeutico in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- terapèutico in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- terapèutico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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