medicina
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
medicina f (plural medicines)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “medicina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “medicina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “medicina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “medicina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Corsican edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin medicina. Cognates include Italian medicina and French médecine.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
medicina f
References edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin medicina. Doublet of menciña.
Noun edit
medicina f (uncountable)
- medicine (field of study)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “medicina”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
medicina f (plural medicine)
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Substantive of the feminine of medicīnus (“medical”), an adjective based on medicus (“doctor”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.diˈkiː.na/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkiːnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/, [med̪iˈt͡ʃiːnä]
Noun edit
medicīna f (genitive medicīnae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | medicīna | medicīnae |
Genitive | medicīnae | medicīnārum |
Dative | medicīnae | medicīnīs |
Accusative | medicīnam | medicīnās |
Ablative | medicīnā | medicīnīs |
Vocative | medicīna | medicīnae |
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: medicina
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- → Old Irish: midchuina
- ⇒ Welsh: meddyginiaeth
Later borrowings:
- → Catalan: medicina, medecina
- → Czech: medicína
- → Finnish: medisiina (jargon)
- → Galician: medicina
- → Latvian: medicīna
- → Lithuanian: medicina
- → Occitan: medecina, medicina
- → Old French: medecine
- → Polish: medycyna
- → Russian: медицина (medicina)
- → Portuguese: medicina
- → Romanian: medicină
- → Spanish: medicina
- → Swedish: medicin
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĕdĭcīna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 598
Further reading edit
- “medicina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “medicina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- medicina 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)
- medicina 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: philosophiam, medicinam profiteri
- to be a philosopher, physician by profession: philosophiam, medicinam profiteri
- “medicina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “medicina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Lithuanian edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicinus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medeor (“I heal”).
Noun edit
medicina f
- medicine (the field of study)
Declension edit
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | medicìna | medicìnos |
genitive (kilmininkas) | medicìnos | medicìnų |
dative (naudininkas) | medicìnai | medicìnoms |
accusative (galininkas) | medicìną | medicìnas |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | medicìna | medicìnomis |
locative (vietininkas) | medicìnoje | medicìnose |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | medicìna | medicìnos |
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
- medecina (obsolete)
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin medicīna (“medicine”), from medicīnus (“medical”), from medicus, from medeor (“to heal; to cure”). Doublet of mezinha.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na
Noun edit
medicina f (plural medicinas)
- medicine (field of study)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
medicína f (Cyrillic spelling медици́на)
- (uncountable) medicine (science)
Declension edit
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
medicȋna f
- medicine (field of study)
Inflection edit
Feminine, a-stem | ||
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nominative | medicína | |
genitive | medicíne | |
singular | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
medicína | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
medicíne | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
medicíni | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
medicíno | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
medicíni | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
medicíno |
See also edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /mediˈθina/ [me.ð̞iˈθi.na]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /mediˈsina/ [me.ð̞iˈsi.na]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: me‧di‧ci‧na
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin medicīna. Compare the form melecina.
Noun edit
medicina f (plural medicinas)
- medicine
- Synonyms: medicamento, remedio
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
medicina
- inflection of medicinar:
Further reading edit
- “medicina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014