medicar

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin medicāre, present active infinitive of medicō (“I cure, heal”).

Verb

medicar (first-person singular present medico, first-person singular preterite mediquei, past participle medicado)

1. (transitive) to medicate

   Synonym: receitar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of medicar (c-qu alternation)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti)	Third-person (el / ela / Vde.)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.)
Infinitive
Impersonal	medicar
Personal	medicar	medicares	medicar	medicarmos	medicardes	medicaren
Gerund
	medicando
Past participle
Masculine	medicado			medicados
Feminine	medicada			medicadas
Indicative
Present	medico	medicas	medica	medicamos	medicades	medican
Imperfect	medicaba	medicabas	medicaba	medicabamos	medicabades	medicaban
Preterite	mediquei	medicaches	medicou	medicamos	medicastes	medicaron
Pluperfect	medicara	medicaras	medicara	medicaramos	medicarades	medicaran
Future	medicarei	medicarás	medicará	medicaremos	medicaredes	medicarán
Conditional	medicaría	medicarías	medicaría	medicariamos	medicariades	medicarían
Subjunctive
Present	medique	mediques	medique	mediquemos	mediquedes	mediquen
Imperfect	medicase	medicases	medicase	medicásemos	medicásedes	medicasen
Future	medicar	medicares	medicar	medicarmos	medicardes	medicaren
Imperative
Affirmative		medica	medique	mediquemos	medicade	mediquen
Negative (non)		non mediques	non medique	non mediquemos	non mediquedes	non mediquen

    Reintegrated conjugation of medicar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Reintegrationism)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (ti / tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	medicar
Personal	medicar	medicares	medicar	medicarmos	medicardes	medicarem
Gerund
	medicando
Past participle
Masculine	medicado			medicados
Feminine	medicada			medicadas
Indicative
Present	medico	medicas	medica	medicamos	medicades, medicais	medicam
Imperfect	medicava	medicavas	medicava	medicávamos	medicávades, medicáveis, medicávais1	medicavam
Preterite	mediquei	medicaste, medicache1	medicou	medicamos	medicastes	medicárom, medicaram
Pluperfect	medicara	medicaras	medicara	medicáramos	medicárades, medicáreis, medicárais1	medicaram
Future	medicarei	medicarás	medicará	medicaremos	medicaredes, medicareis	medicarám, medicarão
Conditional	medicaria	medicarias	medicaria	medicaríamos	medicaríades, medicaríeis, medicaríais1	medicariam
Subjunctive
Present	medique	mediques	medique	mediquemos	mediquedes, mediqueis	mediquem
Imperfect	medicasse	medicasses	medicasse	medicássemos	medicássedes, medicásseis	medicassem
Future	medicar	medicares	medicar	medicarmos	medicardes	medicarem
Imperative
Affirmative		medica	medique	mediquemos	medicade, medicai	mediquem
Negative (nom)		nom mediques	nom medique	nom mediquemos	nom mediquedes, nom mediqueis	nom mediquem

¹Less recommended.

Derived terms

• medicación
• automedicarse
• automedicación

Further reading

• “medicar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “medicar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicāre (“to cure, to heal”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈka(ʁ)/ [me.d͡ʒiˈka(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈka(ʁ)/ [me.d͡ʒiˈka(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈka(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈka(ʁ)/ [me.d͡ʒiˈka(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈka(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ.diˈkaɾ/ [mɨ.ðiˈkaɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ.diˈkaɾ/ [mɨ.ðiˈkaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ.diˈka.ɾi/ [mɨ.ðiˈka.ɾi]

• Hyphenation: me‧di‧car

Verb

medicar (first-person singular present medico, first-person singular preterite mediquei, past participle medicado)

1. (transitive) to medicate

   Synonyms: medicamentar, receitar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of medicar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	medicar
Personal	medicar	medicares	medicar	medicarmos	medicardes	medicarem
Gerund
	medicando
Past participle
Masculine	medicado			medicados
Feminine	medicada			medicadas
Indicative
Present	medico	medicas	medica	medicamos	medicais	medicam
Imperfect	medicava	medicavas	medicava	medicávamos	medicáveis	medicavam
Preterite	mediquei	medicaste	medicou	medicamos1, medicámos2	medicastes	medicaram
Pluperfect	medicara	medicaras	medicara	medicáramos	medicáreis	medicaram
Future	medicarei	medicarás	medicará	medicaremos	medicareis	medicarão
Conditional	medicaria	medicarias	medicaria	medicaríamos	medicaríeis	medicariam
Subjunctive
Present	medique	mediques	medique	mediquemos	mediqueis	mediquem
Imperfect	medicasse	medicasses	medicasse	medicássemos	medicásseis	medicassem
Future	medicar	medicares	medicar	medicarmos	medicardes	medicarem
Imperative
Affirmative		medica	medique	mediquemos	medicai	mediquem
Negative (não)		não mediques	não medique	não mediquemos	não mediqueis	não mediquem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Derived terms

• medicação
• automedicar
• automedicação

Further reading

• “medicar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• “medicar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicāre (“to cure, heal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mediˈkaɾ/ [me.ð̞iˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: me‧di‧car

Verb

medicar (first-person singular present medico, first-person singular preterite mediqué, past participle medicado)

1. (transitive) to medicate

   Synonyms: medicinar, medicamentar, recetar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of medicar (c-qu alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			medicar
gerund			medicando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		medicado		medicada
		plural		medicados		medicadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	medico	medicastú medicásvos	medica	medicamos	medicáis	medican
	imperfect	medicaba	medicabas	medicaba	medicábamos	medicabais	medicaban
	preterite	mediqué	medicaste	medicó	medicamos	medicasteis	medicaron
	future	medicaré	medicarás	medicará	medicaremos	medicaréis	medicarán
	conditional	medicaría	medicarías	medicaría	medicaríamos	medicaríais	medicarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	medique	mediquestú mediquésvos2	medique	mediquemos	mediquéis	mediquen
	imperfect (ra)	medicara	medicaras	medicara	medicáramos	medicarais	medicaran
	imperfect (se)	medicase	medicases	medicase	medicásemos	medicaseis	medicasen
	future1	medicare	medicares	medicare	medicáremos	medicareis	medicaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		medicatú medicávos	medique	mediquemos	medicad	mediquen
	negative		no mediques	no medique	no mediquemos	no mediquéis	no mediquen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

    Selected combined forms of medicar (c-qu alternation)

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
with infinitive medicar
	dative	medicarme	medicarte	medicarle, medicarse	medicarnos	medicaros	medicarles, medicarse
	accusative	medicarme	medicarte	medicarlo, medicarla, medicarse	medicarnos	medicaros	medicarlos, medicarlas, medicarse
with gerund medicando
	dative	medicándome	medicándote	medicándole, medicándose	medicándonos	medicándoos	medicándoles, medicándose
	accusative	medicándome	medicándote	medicándolo, medicándola, medicándose	medicándonos	medicándoos	medicándolos, medicándolas, medicándose
with informal second-person singular tú imperative medica
	dative	medícame	medícate	medícale	medícanos	not used	medícales
	accusative	medícame	medícate	medícalo, medícala	medícanos	not used	medícalos, medícalas
with informal second-person singular vos imperative medicá
	dative	medicame	medicate	medicale	medicanos	not used	medicales
	accusative	medicame	medicate	medicalo, medicala	medicanos	not used	medicalos, medicalas
with formal second-person singular imperative medique
	dative	medíqueme	not used	medíquele, medíquese	medíquenos	not used	medíqueles
	accusative	medíqueme	not used	medíquelo, medíquela, medíquese	medíquenos	not used	medíquelos, medíquelas
with first-person plural imperative mediquemos
	dative	not used	mediquémoste	mediquémosle	mediquémonos	mediquémoos	mediquémosles
	accusative	not used	mediquémoste	mediquémoslo, mediquémosla	mediquémonos	mediquémoos	mediquémoslos, mediquémoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative medicad
	dative	medicadme	not used	medicadle	medicadnos	medicaos	medicadles
	accusative	medicadme	not used	medicadlo, medicadla	medicadnos	medicaos	medicadlos, medicadlas
with formal second-person plural imperative mediquen
	dative	medíquenme	not used	medíquenle	medíquennos	not used	medíquenles, medíquense
	accusative	medíquenme	not used	medíquenlo, medíquenla	medíquennos	not used	medíquenlos, medíquenlas, medíquense

Derived terms

• automedicación
• automedicarse
• medicación

 

Further reading

• “medicar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16