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) ==== 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)