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		active			passive
non-finite forms		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

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