paramedic

English

Etymology

para- +‎ medic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpæɹəˈmɛdɪk/

Noun

paramedic (plural paramedics)

1. An individual trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions, victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and preparing them for transport to a medical facility.
2. (US) An individual who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency pre-hospital setting.

Coordinate terms

• medic (functionally synonymous in some contexts but not necessarily idiomatically interchangeable)

Translations

individual trained to stabilize people outside of hospital

• Catalan: paramèdic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輔助醫護人員／辅助医护人员 (fǔzhù yīhù rényuán)

• Danish: paramediciner c
• Esperanto: ambulancisto, ambulancistino (female)
• Finnish: ensihoitaja (fi)
• French: ambulancier (fr) m, ambulancière (fr) f, brancardier (fr) m, brancardière (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sanitäter (de) m, Sanitäterin (de), Rettungssanitäter (de) m, Rettungssanitäterin (de) f, Sanitätspersonal n (collective noun)
• Greek: παραϊατρικό προσωπικό n (paraïatrikó prosopikó), διασώστης (el) m (diasóstis)
• Hungarian: mentős (hu), mentőápoló, mentőtiszt, rohammentős
• Indonesian: paramedis (id)
• Italian: paramedico (it) m
• Japanese: コ・メディカル (ko-medikaru), コメディカル (komedikaru), 医療補助者 (いりょうほじょしゃ, iryō hojosha)
• Macedonian: бо́лничар m (bólničar), болни́чарка f (bolníčarka), санита́р m (sanitár), санита́рка f (sanitárka), парамедицина́р m (paramedicinár), парамедицина́рка f (paramedicinárka)
• Polish: ratownik (pl) m, ratowniczka (pl) f, ratownik medyczny m, ratowniczka medyczna f
• Portuguese: paramédico (pt) m, paramédica f
• Romanian: paramedic (ro) m, paramedică f
• Russian: санита́р (ru) m (sanitár), санита́рка (ru) f (sanitárka), параме́дик (ru) m (paramédik), фе́льдшер (ru) m (félʹdšer)
• Spanish: paramédico (es) m, paramédica (es) f
• Swedish: ambulanspersonal (collective noun), akutvårdare, sjukvårdare c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: పారామెడిక్ (pārāmeḍik)
• Turkish: sıhhiyeci (tr), acıl tıp teknisyeni, paramedik
• Welsh: parafeddyg (cy) m
• Yiddish: פֿעלדשער‎ m (feldsher)

Anagrams

• preadamic

Romanian

Etymology

From English paramedic. By surface analysis, para- +‎ medic.

Adjective

paramedic m or n (feminine singular paramedică, masculine plural paramedici, feminine and neuter plural paramedice)

1. paramedical

Declension

Declension of paramedic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	paramedic		paramedică	paramedici	paramedice
	definite	paramedicul		paramedica	paramedicii	paramedicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	paramedic		paramedice	paramedici	paramedice
	definite	paramedicului		paramedicei	paramedicilor	paramedicelor

Noun

paramedic m (plural paramedici)

1. paramedic

Declension

Declension of paramedic

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) paramedic	paramedicul	(niște) paramedici	paramedicii
genitive/dative	(unui) paramedic	paramedicului	(unor) paramedici	paramedicilor
vocative	paramedicule		paramedicilor