medicus
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeː.diˌkʏs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: me‧di‧cus
Noun
medicus m (plural medici, diminutive medicusje n, feminine medica)
- doctor, physician
Synonyms
- arts
- dokter
- geneesheer
Descendants
- Afrikaans: medikus
Latin
Etymology 1
From medeor (“heal, cure”) + -icus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.di.kus/, [ˈmɛd̪ɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.di.kus/, [ˈmɛːd̪ikus]
Adjective
medicus (feminine medica, neuter medicum); first/second-declension adjective
- healing, curative, medical
- magic
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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
- 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).
- Nuper erat medicus, nunc est vespillo Diaulus:
- medicine
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | medicus | medicī |
Genitive | medicī | medicōrum |
Dative | medicō | medicīs |
Accusative | medicum | medicōs |
Ablative | medicō | medicīs |
Vocative | medice | medicī |
Derived terms
- medica
- medicīnus
- medicō
- medicor
Descendants
- Dalmatian:
- medco
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: medico, Medici
- Sicilian: medicu
- Padanian:
- Friulian: miedi
- Ligurian: mêgo, miégo
- Romansch: medi, miedi, meidi
- Venetian: medego, miedego
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: mêjo
- Old French: mege, miege, mirie, mire
- French: mège, meige, mire (all archaic)
- Walloon: méde
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: metge
- Occitan: mètge
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: medicu, meicu, megu, meigu
- Ancient borrowings
- → Proto-Albanian: *mʲeðək
- Albanian: mjek
- → Proto-Brythonic: *meðɨg
- Breton: mezeg
- Cornish: medhek
- Welsh: meddyg
- → Proto-Albanian: *mʲeðək
- Learned borrowings:
- → Aromanian: medicu
- → Asturian: médicu
- → Dutch: medicus
- → English: medic
- → Polish: medyk
- → Portuguese: médico
- → Romanian: medic
- → Russian: медик (medik)
- → Spanish: médico
Etymology 2
Mēdus (“Mede”) + -icus
Alternative forms
- Mēdicus
Adjective
mēdicus (feminine mēdica, neuter mēdicum); first/second-declension adjective
- Median, Median language
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mēdicus | mēdica | mēdicum | mēdicī | mēdicae | mēdica | |
Genitive | mēdicī | mēdicae | mēdicī | mēdicōrum | mēdicārum | mēdicōrum | |
Dative | mēdicō | mēdicō | mēdicīs | ||||
Accusative | mēdicum | mēdicam | mēdicum | mēdicōs | mēdicās | mēdica | |
Ablative | mēdicō | mēdicā | mēdicō | mēdicīs | |||
Vocative | mēdice | mēdica | mēdicum | mēdicī | mēdicae | mēdica |
Descendants
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *melica
- Catalan: melca, melga
- Galician: melga
- Spanish: mielga
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- medicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a philosopher, physician by profession: se philosophum, medicum (esse) profiteri
- 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