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medicus

medicus

Dutch

Noun

medicus m (plural medici)

  1. doctor, physician

Synonyms


Latin

Etymology 1

From medeor (heal, cure).

Pronunciation

Adjective

medicus m (feminine medica, neuter medicum); first/second declension

  1. healing, curative, medical

Inflection

First/second declension.

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).

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative medicus medicī
genitive medicī medicōrum
dative medicō medicīs
accusative medicum medicōs
ablative medicō medicīs
vocative medice medicī

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Polish: medyk (borrowing)
  • Portuguese: médico
  • Romanian: medic
  • Romansch: medi, miedi, meidi
  • Russian: медик (medik) (borrowing)
  • Sardinian: medicu, meicu, megu, meigu
  • Sicilian: medicu
  • Spanish: médico
  • Venetian: medego, miedego
  • Welsh: meddyg (borrowing)

Etymology 2

From medus (Mede).

Adjective

medicus

  1. Median, Median language

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