Latin

Noun

clīnicus m ‎(genitive clīnicī); second declension

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

Declension

Second declension.

Descendants

• French: clinique

References

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