medicus

From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.diˌkʏs/

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• Hyphenation: me‧di‧cus

medicus m (plural medici, diminutive medicusje n, feminine medica)

1. doctor, physician

• arts
• dokter
• geneesheer

• Afrikaans: medikus

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.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.dɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.di.kus]

medicus (feminine medica, neuter medicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. healing, curative, medical
2. magic

First/second-declension adjective.

medicus m (genitive medicī); second declension

1. doctor, physician, surgeon

   Nuper erat medicus, nunc est vespillo Diaulus:
     quod vespillo facit, fecerat et medicus.

   Lately was Diaulus a doctor, now he is an undertaker. What he now does as an undertaker, he had done as a doctor before — Martial 1.47

   Medice, cura teipsum. (Lucas 4:23)

   Physician, heal thyself. (Luke 4:23)

Second-declension noun.

• medica
• medicīnus
• medicō
• medicor

From Mēdus (“Mede”) + -icus.

• Mēdicus

mēdicus (feminine mēdica, neuter mēdicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Median, Median language

First/second-declension adjective.

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *melica
  • Catalan: melca, melga
  • Galician: melga
  • Spanish: mielga

• “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.
  • to be a philosopher, physician by profession: se philosophum, medicum (esse) profiteri
    
• “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