medicina

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.ðiˈsi.nə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [me.ðiˈsi.na]
  • (file)

Noun

medicina f (plural medicines)

  1. medicine

Further reading

Corsican

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mediˈt͡ʃina/

Noun

medicina f

  1. medicine

References

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin medicina. Doublet of menciña.

Noun

medicina f (uncountable)

  1. medicine (field of study)

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧cì‧na

Noun

medicina f (plural medicine)

  1. medicine

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Substantive of the feminine of medicīnus (medical), an adjective based on medicus (doctor).

Pronunciation

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
  • North Italian:
    • Ligurian: meixina
    • Old Venetian: meesina
    • Piedmontese: meisina
    • Romansch: maschdina
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: mecine
    • Old Northern French: mechine
      • Norman: mèchine, merchine
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Ancient borrowings:

Later borrowings:

References

Further reading

  • 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, 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

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin medicīna (medicine), from medicīnus (medical), from medicus, from medeor (to heal; to cure). Doublet of mezinha.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈsĩ.nɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈsi.na/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.diˈsi.nɐ/ [mɨ.ðiˈsi.nɐ], /mɨ.dɨˈsi.nɐ/ [mɨ.ðɨˈsi.nɐ]

  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

  1. medicine (field of study)

Derived terms

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

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /mediˈθina/ [me.ð̞iˈθi.na]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /mediˈsina/ [me.ð̞iˈsi.na]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: me‧di‧ci‧na

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin medicīna. Compare the form melecina.

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

  1. medicine
    Synonyms: medicamento, remedio
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Maranao: midisina
  • Tagalog: medisina

Verb

medicina

  1. inflection of medicinar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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