medico

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

English

Noun

medico (plural medicos)

1. (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 and Ben Dorries, “Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries”, in Herald Sun‎^[2]:

     "I haven't got the final clearance from the medicos but that's the plan."

Italian

Alternative forms

• medeco (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.di.ko/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdiko
• Hyphenation: mè‧di‧co

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin medicus, derived from medicō (“cure, heal”).

Adjective

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

1. medical

Noun

medico m (plural medici)

1. (medicine) doctor, physician

   Synonym: dottore

Derived terms

• medicastro
• medichessa
• medico di famiglia

 

Related terms

• medicabile
• medicale
• medicamento
• medicamentoso
• medicare
• medicarsi
• medicatore
• medicatura
• medicazione
• medicheria
• medicina
• medicinale

 

See also

• chirurgo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

medico

1. first-person singular present indicative of medicare

Anagrams

• comedi, decimo, decimò, demico

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.koː/, [ˈmɛd̪ɪkoː]
• (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

1. (transitive) I heal, cure
2. (transitive) I give healing power to
3. (transitive) I medicate
4. (transitive) I dye with color

Usage notes

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of medicō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		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
		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
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	medicā	—	—	medicāte	—
	future	—	medicātō	medicātō	—	medicātōte	medicantō
passive	present	—	medicāre	—	—	medicāminī	—
	future	—	medicātor	medicātor	—	—	medicantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		medicāre	medicāvisse	medicātūrum esse	medicārī	medicātum esse	medicātum īrī
participles		medicāns	—	medicātūrus	—	medicātus	medicandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		medicandī	medicandō	medicandum	medicandō	medicātum	medicātū

Derived terms

• medicābilis
• medicābulum
• medicāmen
• medicāmentum
• medicātiō
• medicātor
• medicātus

 

Descendants

• Dalmatian: medcur
• Italian: medicare
• Old French: megier
  • ⇒ French: mégir
• Venetian: medegar
• → Catalan: medicar
• → English: medicate
• → French: médiquer
• → Portuguese: medicar
• → Spanish: medicar

Etymology 2

Noun

medicō

1. 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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

medico

1. first-person singular present indicative of medicar