medicina

See also: medicină, medicīna, medicīnā, and medicína

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

medicina f (plural medicines)

1. medicine

Related terms

• medicinal

Further reading

• “medicina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “medicina” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “medicina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “medicina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

---

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of menciña.

Noun

medicina f (uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

Related terms

• medicinal

Further reading

• “medicina” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

---

Italian

Etymology

From Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mediˈt͡ʃina]
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧cì‧na

Noun

medicina f (plural medicine)

1. medicine

Related terms

• medicinale
• medico

Anagrams

• mendicai

---

Latin

Etymology

Substantive of medicīnus (“medical”), from medicus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkiː.na/, [mɛ.d̪ɪˈkiː.na]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/, [mɛ.d̪iˈt͡ʃiː.na]

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

• → Catalan: medicina, medecina
• → Galician: medicina
• Italian: medicina
• Mirandese: malzina
• → Occitan: medecina, medicina
• Old French: mecine
• → Old French: medecine
  • → English: medicine
  • French: médecine
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: metzina
  • Occitan: metzina, metgiá
• Old Portuguese: meezinna
  • Galician: menciña
  • Portuguese: mezinha

• → Polish: medycyna
  • → Russian: медицина (medicina)
• → Portuguese: medicina
• → Romanian: medicină
• Spanish: melecina
• → Spanish: medicina
• → Swedish: medicin

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• medicina 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: 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

---

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicīna (“medicine”), from medicīnus (“medical”), from medicus, from medeor (“I heal; I cure”). Doublet of mezinha (“home-remedy”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌme.d͡ʒi.ˈsi.na/, /ˌme.d͡ʒi.ˈsi.nɐ/, /me.ˈdsi.na/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌmɨ.ði.ˈsi.nɐ/, /ˌmɨ.ðɨ.ˈsi.nɐ/
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

Noun

medicina f (uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

Derived terms

• medicina forense
• medicina galênica
• medicina holística
• medicina interna

• medicina legal
• medicina nuclear
• medicina tropical
• medicina veterinária

Related terms

• médico
• medicinal
• medicinalmente
• medicinar
• medicineira

---

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

medicína f (Cyrillic spelling медици́на)

1. (uncountable) medicine (science)

Declension

Declension of medicina

	singular
nominative	medicina
genitive	medicine
dative	medicini
accusative	medicinu
vocative	medicino
locative	medicini
instrumental	medicinom

---

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	medicína
accusative	medicíno
genitive	medicíne
dative	medicíni
locative	medicíni
instrumental	medicíno

See also

• zdravílo

---

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicīna. Compare the form melecina.

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /mediˈθina/, [meðiˈθina]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /mediˈsina/, [meðiˈsina]

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine

   Synonyms: medicamento, remedio

Derived terms

• medicina alternativa
• medicina forense

 

Related terms

• medicinal
• médico
• médica

Further reading

• “medicina” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.