clinicus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “the bed”). See also clīnicē. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkliː.nɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkliː.ni.kus] === Noun === clīnicus m (genitive clīnicī); second declension (post-classical) a physician who tends to patients who are bedridden (post-classical) a bearer of the bier, sexton, gravedigger (Late Latin) a patient who is bedridden (Late Latin) one who is baptized when ill or infirm ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== French: clinique German: Klinik → Norwegian Bokmål: klinikk === References === “clīnĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “clinicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “clinicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers