medicina

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /mə.diˈsi.nə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /me.diˈsi.na/
  • (file)

Noun

medicina f (plural medicines)

  1. medicine

Further reading

Corsican

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin medicina. Cognates include Italian medicina and French médecine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mediˈt͡ʃina/

Noun

medicina f

  1. medicine

References

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of menciña.

Noun

medicina f (uncountable)

  1. medicine (field of study)

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: me‧di‧cì‧na

Noun

medicina f (plural medicine)

  1. medicine

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Substantive of the feminine of medicīnus (medical), an adjective based on medicus (doctor).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /me.diˈkiː.na/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkiːnä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/, [med̪iˈt͡ʃiːnä]

Noun

medicīna f (genitive medicīnae); first declension

  1. medicine, remedy, cure
  2. practice or art of medicine or healing

Declension

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

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: medicina
  • North Italian:
    • Ligurian: meixina
    • Old Venetian: meesina
    • Piedmontese: meisina
    • Romansch: maschdina
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: mecine
    • Old Northern French: mechine
      • Norman: mèchine, merchine
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Ancient borrowings:

Later borrowings:

References

Further reading

  • 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • 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

Etymology

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

medicina f

  1. medicine (the field of study)

Declension

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin medicīna (medicine), from medicīnus (medical), from medicus, from medeor (to heal; to cure). Doublet of mezinha.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈsĩ.nɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈsi.na/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.diˈsi.nɐ/ [mɨ.ðiˈsi.nɐ], /mɨ.dɨˈsi.nɐ/ [mɨ.ðɨˈsi.nɐ]

  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

  1. medicine (field of study)

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /medit͡sǐːna/
  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

Noun

medicína f (Cyrillic spelling медици́на)

  1. (uncountable) medicine (science)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛdit͡síːna/

Noun

medicȋna f

  1. medicine (field of study)

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nominative medicína
genitive medicíne
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
medicína
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
dative
(dajȃlnik)
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
medicíni
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
medicíno

See also

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicīna. Compare the form melecina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /mediˈθina/ [me.ð̞iˈθi.na]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /mediˈsina/ [me.ð̞iˈsi.na]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: me‧di‧ci‧na

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

  1. medicine
    Synonyms: medicamento, remedio

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Maranao: midisina
  • Tagalog: medisina

Verb

medicina

  1. inflection of medicinar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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