clinique

English

Noun

clinique (plural cliniques)

1. Archaic spelling of clinic.

French

Etymology

From the Late Latin clīnicus (“a bed-ridden person”, “one baptized on a sick-bed”, “a physician”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kli.nik/

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• Rhymes: -ik
• Hyphenation: cli‧nique

Adjective

clinique (plural cliniques)

1. clinical

Derived terms

• mort clinique

Noun

clinique f (plural cliniques)

1. clinic (small hospital)

Descendants

• → English: clinic
• Haitian Creole: klinik
• → Persian: کلینیک (kelinik)

Further reading

• “clinique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012