English

Noun

medico ‎(plural medicos)

1. (informal, humorous) A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV,

     She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young medico during the journey.

   • 1929, Time, 8 April, 1929,

     He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.

   • 2009, January 22, “Christian Nicolussi and Ben Dorries”, in Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries:

     "I haven't got the final clearance from the medicos but that's the plan."

Italian

Etymology

From Latin medicus, from medicō ‎(“cure, heal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'mɛ.di.ko/

Adjective

medico m ‎(feminine singular medica, masculine plural medici, feminine plural mediche)

1. medical

Noun

medico m ‎(plural medici) feminine medica (rare), diminutive: medichino, medichetto; augmentative; medicone; endearment: medicuccio; pejorative: medicaccio, medicastro

1. (Medicine) doctor, physician

Synonyms

• dottore

Related terms

• medicabile
• medicamento
• medicare
• medichessa
• medicina
• medico di famiglia

See also

• chirurgo

Verb

medico

1. first-person singular indicative present of medicare

Anagrams

• decimo, decimò

Latin

Etymology

From medicus ‎(“medical”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.koː/

Noun

medicō

1. dative singular of medicus
2. ablative singular of medicus

Verb

medicō ‎(present infinitive medicāre, perfect active medicāvī, supine medicātum); first conjugation

1. I heal, cure.
2. I give healing power to.
3. I medicate.
4. I dye with color.

Inflection

Derived terms

• medicātus

Related terms

Descendants

References

• medico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medico in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “medico”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

medico

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of medicar.