medicina

See also: medicină, medicīna, medicīnā, and medicína

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.ðiˈsi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [me.ðiˈsi.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, 2024
• “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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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 (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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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 Latin) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkiː.na/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkiːnä]
• (modern Italianate 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

• → 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 Galician-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 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

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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

• IPA^(key): /ˌme.d͡ʒi.ˈsi.na/, /ˌme.d͡ʒi.ˈsi.nɐ/, /me.ˈdsi.na/
• 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): /mɛdit͡síːna/

Noun

medicȋna f

1. medicine (field of study)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	medicína
genitive	medicíne
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	medicína
genitive (rodȋlnik)	medicíne
dative (dajȃlnik)	medicíni
accusative (tožȋlnik)	medicíno
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	medicíni
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	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]

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine

   Synonyms: medicamento, remedio

Related terms

• medicinal
• médico
• médica

Further reading

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