medicus

== Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmeː.diˌkʏs/ Hyphenation: me‧di‧cus === Noun === medicus m (plural medici, diminutive medicusje n, feminine medica) doctor, physician ==== Synonyms ==== arts dokter geneesheer ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: medikus == Latin == === Etymology 1 === From medeor (“heal, cure”) + -icus. Prósper rejects this derivation due to the fact -icus generally does not attach to verb stems. She instead opts to posit medicus as a thematicization of Proto-Italic *meddiks. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɛ.dɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɛː.di.kus] ==== Adjective ==== medicus (feminine medica, neuter medicum); first/second-declension adjective healing, curative, medical magic ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Noun ==== medicus m (genitive medicī); second declension doctor, physician, surgeon ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== medica medicīnus medicō medicor ==== Descendants ==== === Etymology 2 === From Mēdus (“Mede”) + -icus. ==== Alternative forms ==== Mēdicus ==== Adjective ==== mēdicus (feminine mēdica, neuter mēdicum); first/second-declension adjective Median, Median language ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *melica Asturian: mielga, mielgu Catalan: melca, melga Galician: melga Spanish: mielga === References === === Further reading === “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, 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. “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