empiricus

== Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin empīricus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛmˈpi.ri.kʏs/ === Noun === empiricus m (plural empirici, diminutive empiricusje n) empiricist ==== Related terms ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === empēricus === Etymology === From the Ancient Greek ἐμπειρῐκός (empeirĭkós), which has in the plural the sense οἱ ἐμπειρικοί (hoi empeirikoí, “the Empiric school of physicians”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛmˈpiː.rɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [emˈpiː.ri.kus] === Noun === empīricus m (genitive empīricī); second declension an empirical physician, an empiric (a physician whose knowledge of medicine is derived from experience, observation, and practice only, as opposed to scientific theory) (Can we find and add a quotation of Aulus Cornelius Celsus to this entry?) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== empīrica empīricē ==== Descendants ==== === References === “empīrĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “empiricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “empīrĭcus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 587/1. “empīricus · a” on page 606/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)