medicina

See also: medicină, medicīna, medicīnā, and medicína

Catalan

Noun

medicina f (plural medicines)

1. medicine

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Galician

Noun

medicina f (uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

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Italian

Etymology

Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

medicina f (plural medicine)

1. medicine

Related terms

• medicinale
• medico

Anagrams

• mendicai

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkiː.na/, [mɛ.dɪˈkiː.na]

Noun

medicīna f (genitive medicīnae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	medicīna	medicīnae
genitive	medicīnae	medicīnārum
dative	medicīnae	medicīnīs
accusative	medicīnam	medicīnās
ablative	medicīnā	medicīnīs
vocative	medicīna	medicīnae

Descendants

• English: medicine
• French: médecine
• Italian: medicina
• Mirandese: malzina
• Old French: mecine
• Old Portuguese: meezinna
  • Galician: menciña, medicina (borrowed)
  • Portuguese: mezinha, medicina (borrowed)

• Polish: medycyna
• Romanian: medicină
• Russian: медицина (medicina)
• Spanish: medicina

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “medicina”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “medicina” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌme.d͡ʒi.ˈsi.na/, /ˌme.d͡ʒi.ˈsi.nɐ/
• (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

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Serbo-Croatian

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

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛdiˈtsíːna/
• Tonal orthography: medicȋna

Noun

medicína f (genitive medicíne, uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

Declension

Declension of medicína (feminine, a-stem)

	singular
nominative	medicína
accusative	medicíno
genitive	medicíne
dative	medicíni
locative	medicíni
instrumental	medicíno

See also

• zdravílo

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin medicīna.

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine.

Synonyms

• medicamento
• remedio

Related terms

• medicinal
• médico
• médica