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/

• Audio

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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, 2022
• “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.

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Corsican

Alternative forms

• midicina

Etymology

From Latin medicina. Cognates include Italian medicina and French médecine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mediˈt͡ʃina/

Noun

medicina f

1. medicine

References

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

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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.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/

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• Rhymes: -ina
• 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/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkiːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/, [med̪iˈt͡ʃiːnä]

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

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: medicina
• Padanian:
  • Ligurian: meixina
  • Old Venetian: meesina
  • Piedmontese: meisina
  • Romansch: maschdina
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: mecine
  • Old Northern French: mechine
    • Norman: mèchine, merchine
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: metzina
  • Old Occitan: metzina, mecina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Mirandese: malzina
  • Old Portuguese: meezinna
    • Galician: menciña
    • Portuguese: mezinha
  • Old Spanish: melezina
    • Spanish: melecina (obsolete)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: medichina, meichina, meighina
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Old Irish: midchuina
• Later borrowings:
  • → Catalan: medicina, medecina
  • → Galician: medicina
  • → Latvian: medicīna
  • → Lithuanian: medicina
  • → Occitan: medecina, medicina
  • → Old French: medecine
    • French: médecine
    • → English: medicine
  • → Polish: medycyna
    • → Russian: медицина (medicina)
  • → Portuguese: medicina
  • → Romanian: medicină
  • → Spanish: medicina
  • → Swedish: medicin

References

• “medicina”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “mĕdĭcīna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 61, page 598

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Lithuanian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicinus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medeor (“I heal”).

Noun

medicina f

1. medicine (the field of study)

Declension

declension of medicina

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	medicìna	medicìnos
genitive (kilmininkas)	medicìnos	medicìnų
dative (naudininkas)	medicìnai	medicìnoms
accusative (galininkas)	medicìną	medicìnas
instrumental (įnagininkas)	medicìna	medicìnomis
locative (vietininkas)	medicìnoje	medicìnose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	medicìna	medicìnos

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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): /medit͡sǐːna/
• 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): /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

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicīna. Compare the form melecina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /mediˈθina/, [me.ð̞iˈθi.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /mediˈsina/, [me.ð̞iˈsi.na]
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

• Audio (Colombia)

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Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine

   Synonyms: medicamento, remedio

Derived terms

• medicina alternativa
• medicina forense

 

Related terms

• medicinal
• médico
• médica

Descendants

• → Maranao: midisina
• → Tagalog: medisina

Verb

medicina

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of medicinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of medicinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of medicinar.

Further reading

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