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

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of menciña.

Noun

medicina f (uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

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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

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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

• → 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

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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

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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

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Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

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

Borrowed from Latin medicīna. Compare the form melecina.

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine.

Synonyms

• medicamento
• remedio

Related terms

• medicinal
• médico
• médica