medico
English
Noun
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, Time, 8 April, 1929, [2]
- 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 and Ben Dorries, “Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries”, in Herald Sun[3]:
- "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
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin medicus, derived from medicō (“cure, heal”).
Adjective
medico (feminine medica, masculine plural medici, feminine plural mediche)
Noun
medico m (plural medici)
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
medico
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈme.di.koː/, [ˈmɛd̪ɪkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.di.ko/, [ˈmɛːd̪iko]
Etymology 1
From medicus (“medical”).
Alternative forms
Verb
medicō (present infinitive medicāre, perfect active medicāvī, supine medicātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) I heal, cure
- (transitive) I give healing power to
- (transitive) I medicate
- (transitive) I dye with color
Usage notes
The passive is sometimes used with active meaning; see medicor.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
(deprecated template usage) medicō
References
- “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.
Spanish
Verb
medico
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