clínica

See also: clinica and clinică

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈkli.ni.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkli.ni.ka]
• Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca

Noun

clínica f (plural clíniques)

1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
2. female equivalent of clínic

Adjective

clínica f sg

1. feminine singular of clínic

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklinika/ [ˈkli.ni.kɐ]
• Rhymes: -inika
• Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca

Noun

clínica f (plural clínicas)

1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)

Adjective

clínica

1. feminine singular of clínico

Further reading

• “clínica”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Portuguese

Etymology

From clínico (“clinical”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈklĩ.ni.kɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.ni.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: clí‧ni‧ca

Noun

clínica f (plural clínicas)

1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)
   • 1889, França Júnior, As Doutoras, 2nd act, 12th scene.

     A sua clínica desaparecerá, minha senhora, no dia em que as mulheres formarem-se às dúzias e aos centos.

     Your clinic will disappear, my lady, on the day that the women graduate by the dozens and by the hundreds.

2. (uncountable) medicine; healthcare (the practice of treating disease)
   • 1927, Humberto de Campos, chapter 285, in A caridade, O Brasil Anedótico:

     O dr. Mateus Saraiva, que exerceu a clínica no Rio de Janeiro na primeira parte do século XVIII

     Doctor Mateus Saraiva, who pratised medicine in Rio de Janeiro in the first part of the 18th century.

   Synonym: medicina

3. female equivalent of clínico

Related terms

• clinicar
• clínico

Adjective

clínica

1. feminine singular of clínico

Further reading

• “clínica”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “clínica”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklinika/ [ˈkli.ni.ka]
• Rhymes: -inika
• Syllabification: clí‧ni‧ca

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin clīnicē, from Ancient Greek κλινική (klinikḗ).

Noun

clínica f (plural clínicas)

1. (healthcare) clinic (small medical facility)

Related terms

• policlínica

Etymology 2

Noun

clínica f (plural clínicas)

1. feminine of clínico

Adjective

clínica f sg

1. feminine singular of clínico

Further reading

• “clínico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025