medico

See also: médico, medicó, medicò, and medico-

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

medico (plural medicos)

(informal) A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV, [1]
  She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young medico during the journey.
- 1929 April 8, Time:
  He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.
- 2009 January 22, Christian Nicolussi, Ben Dorries, “Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries”, in Herald Sun‎^[2], archived from the original on 22 January 2009:
  "I haven't got the final clearance from the medicos but that's the plan."

Galician

Verb

medico

first-person singular present indicative of medicar

Italian

Alternative forms

medeco (regional variant)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.di.ko/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɛdiko
Hyphenation: mè‧di‧co

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin medicus. Compare Neapolitan miedeco.

Adjective

medico (feminine medica, masculine plural medici, feminine plural mediche)

medical

Noun

medico m (plural medici)

(medicine) doctor, physician
Synonym: dottore

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

medico

first-person singular present indicative of medicare

Anagrams

comedi, decimo, decimò, demico

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.koː/, [ˈmɛd̪ɪkoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.ko/, [ˈmɛːd̪iko]

Etymology 1

From medicus (“medical”).

Alternative forms

medicor (deponent)

Verb

medicō (present infinitive medicāre, perfect active medicāvī, supine medicātum); first conjugation

(transitive) to heal, cure
(transitive) to give healing power to
(transitive) to medicate
(transitive) to dye with color

Usage notes

The passive is sometimes used with active meaning; see medicor.

Conjugation

Conjugation of medicō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	medicō	medicās		medicat	medicāmus	medicātis		medicant
	imperfect	medicābam	medicābās		medicābat	medicābāmus	medicābātis		medicābant
	future	medicābō	medicābis		medicābit	medicābimus	medicābitis		medicābunt
	perfect	medicāvī	medicāvistī		medicāvit	medicāvimus	medicāvistis		medicāvērunt, medicāvēre
	pluperfect	medicāveram	medicāverās		medicāverat	medicāverāmus	medicāverātis		medicāverant
	future perfect	medicāverō	medicāveris		medicāverit	medicāverimus	medicāveritis		medicāverint
passive	present	medicor	medicāris, medicāre		medicātur	medicāmur	medicāminī		medicantur
	imperfect	medicābar	medicābāris, medicābāre		medicābātur	medicābāmur	medicābāminī		medicābantur
	future	medicābor	medicāberis, medicābere		medicābitur	medicābimur	medicābiminī		medicābuntur
	perfect	medicātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	medicātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	medicātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	medicem	medicēs		medicet	medicēmus	medicētis		medicent
	imperfect	medicārem	medicārēs		medicāret	medicārēmus	medicārētis		medicārent
	perfect	medicāverim	medicāverīs		medicāverit	medicāverīmus	medicāverītis		medicāverint
	pluperfect	medicāvissem	medicāvissēs		medicāvisset	medicāvissēmus	medicāvissētis		medicāvissent
passive	present	medicer	medicēris, medicēre		medicētur	medicēmur	medicēminī		medicentur
	imperfect	medicārer	medicārēris, medicārēre		medicārētur	medicārēmur	medicārēminī		medicārentur
	perfect	medicātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	medicātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	medicā		—	—	medicāte		—
active	future	—	medicātō		medicātō	—	medicātōte		medicantō
passive	present	—	medicāre		—	—	medicāminī		—
passive	future	—	medicātor		medicātor	—	—		medicantor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		medicāre		medicārī		medicāns		—
future		medicātūrum esse		medicātum īrī		medicātūrus		medicandus
perfect		medicāvisse		medicātum esse		—		medicātus
future perfect		—		medicātum fore		—		—
perfect potential		medicātūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		medicandī	medicandō		medicandum	medicandō	medicātum		medicātū

Derived terms

Descendants

Dalmatian: medcur
Italian: medicare
Franco-Provençal: medgier
Old French: megier
- ⇒ French: mégir
Venetan: medegar
→ Catalan: medicar
→ English: medicate
→ French: médiquer
→ Portuguese: medicar
→ Spanish: medicar

Etymology 2

Noun

medicō

dative/ablative singular of medicus

References

“medico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“medico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
medico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

medico

first-person singular present indicative of medicar

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meˈdiko/ [meˈð̞i.ko]
Rhymes: -iko
Syllabification: me‧di‧co

Verb

medico

first-person singular present indicative of medicar