medicus

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.diˌkʏs/

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• Hyphenation: me‧di‧cus

Noun

medicus m (plural medici, diminutive medicusje n, feminine medica)

1. doctor, physician

Synonyms

• arts
• dokter
• geneesheer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: medikus

Latin

Etymology 1

From medeor (“heal, cure”) +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.kus/, [ˈmɛd̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.kus/, [ˈmɛːd̪ikus]

Adjective

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

1. healing, curative, medical
2. magic

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	medicus	medica	medicum		medicī	medicae	medica
genitive	medicī	medicae	medicī		medicōrum	medicārum	medicōrum
dative	medicō	medicae	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).

2. medicine

Declension

Second-declension noun

	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, medeco (regional variant); Medici
  • Neapolitan: miedeco
  • Sicilian: medicu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: miedi
  • Ligurian: mêgo
  • Romansch: medi, miedi, meidi
  • Venetan: medego, miedego
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: metge
  • Franco-Provençal: mêjo
  • Old French: mege, miege, mirie, mire
    • French: mège, meige, mire (all archaic)
  • Walloon: méde
  • Occitan: mètge
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: medicu, meicu, megu, meigu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: mélicu
• Ancient borrowings
  • → Proto-Albanian: *mʲeðək
    • Albanian: mjek
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *meðɨg
    • Breton: mezeg
    • Cornish: medhek
    • Welsh: meddyg
• Later borrowings:
  • → Aromanian: medicu
  • → Dutch: medicus
  • → English: medic
  • → Polish: medyk
  • → Portuguese: médico
  • → Romanian: medic
  • → Russian: медик (medik)
  • → Spanish: médico
    • → Asturian: médicu

Etymology 2

Mēdus (“Mede”) +‎ -icus

Alternative forms

• Mēdicus

Adjective

mēdicus (feminine mēdica, neuter mēdicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Median, Median language

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mēdicus	mēdica	mēdicum		mēdicī	mēdicae	mēdica
genitive	mēdicī	mēdicae	mēdicī		mēdicōrum	mēdicārum	mēdicōrum
dative	mēdicō	mēdicae	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^[1], 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