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Noun

medicina f ‎(plural medicines)

1. medicine

Galician

Noun

medicina f ‎(uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

Italian

Etymology

Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mediˈt͡ʃina]
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧cì‧na

Noun

medicina f ‎(plural medicine)

1. medicine

Related terms

• medicinale
• medico

Anagrams

• mendicai

Latin

Etymology

Substantive of medicīnus ‎(“medical”), from medicus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkiː.na/, [mɛ.dɪˈkiː.na]

Noun

medicīna f ‎(genitive medicīnae); first declension

1. medicine, remedy, cure
2. practice or art of medicine or healing

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

References

• medicina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medicina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MEDICINA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “medicina”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a philosopher, physician by profession: philosophiam, medicinam profiteri
    
• medicina in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medicina in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicīna ‎(“medicine”), from medicīnus ‎(“medical”), from medicus, from medeor ‎(“I heal; I cure”). Cognate of mezinha ‎(“home-remedy”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌme.d͡ʒi.ˈsi.na/, /ˌme.d͡ʒi.ˈsi.nɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɨ.ði.ˈsi.nɐ/, /ˌmɨ.ðɨ.ˈsi.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

Noun

medicina f (uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

Derived terms

Related terms

• médico
• medicinal
• medicinalmente
• medicinar
• medicineira

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meditsǐːna/
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

Noun

medicína f ‎(Cyrillic spelling медици́на)

1. (uncountable) medicine (science)

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛdiˈtsíːna/
• Tonal orthography: medicȋna

Noun

medicína f ‎(genitive medicíne, uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

Declension

See also

• zdravílo

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin medicīna.

Noun

medicina f ‎(plural medicinas)

1. medicine.

Synonyms

• medicamento
• remedio

Related terms

• medicinal
• médico
• médica