médecine
See also: medecine and médeciné
French
Etymology
From Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, borrowed from Latin medicīna. Replaced the inherited Old French form mecine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /med.sin/, /mɛd.sin/
- Rhymes: -in
Audio (file) - Homophones: médecinent, médecines
Noun
médecine f (plural médecines)
- medicine (field of study)
Derived terms
- médecine alternative
- médecine légale
- médecine non conventionnelle
Related terms
- médicament
- médecin
Verb
médecine
- inflection of médeciner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “médecine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.