medico
English edit
Noun edit
medico (plural medicos)
- (informal) A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV, [1]
- She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young medico during the journey.
- 1929 April 8, Time:
- He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.
- 2009 January 22, Christian Nicolussi, Ben Dorries, “Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries”, in Herald Sun[2], archived from the original on 22 January 2009:
- "I haven't got the final clearance from the medicos but that's the plan."
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV, [1]
Italian edit
Alternative forms edit
- medeco (regional variant)
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin medicus. Compare Neapolitan miedeco.
Adjective edit
medico (feminine medica, masculine plural medici, feminine plural mediche)
Noun edit
medico m (plural medici)
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See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
medico
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈme.di.koː/, [ˈmɛd̪ɪkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.di.ko/, [ˈmɛːd̪iko]
Etymology 1 edit
From medicus (“medical”).
Alternative forms edit
- medicor (deponent)
Verb edit
medicō (present infinitive medicāre, perfect active medicāvī, supine medicātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to heal, cure
- (transitive) to give healing power to
- (transitive) to medicate
- (transitive) to dye with color
Usage notes edit
The passive is sometimes used with active meaning; see medicor.
Conjugation edit
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
medicō
References edit
- “medico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “medico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- medico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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medico