Dutch

Noun

medicus m ‎(plural medici)

1. doctor, physician

Synonyms

• arts
• dokter
• geneesheer

Latin

Etymology 1

From medeor ‎(“heal, cure”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.kus/

Adjective

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

1. healing, curative, medical

Inflection

First/second declension.

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• medeor

Descendants

Etymology 2

From medus ‎(“Mede”).

Adjective

medicus

1. Median, Median language

References

• medicus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medicus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• MEDICUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “medicus”, 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: se philosophum, medicum (esse) profiteri
    
• medicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medicus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin