# medico
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### 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,
    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, 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: /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

* 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
* first-person singular present indicative of medicare

### Anagrams

* comedi, decimo, decimò, demico

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈme.di.koː/, [ˈmɛd̪ɪkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.

##### Derived terms

* medicābilis
* medicābulum
* medicāmen
* medicāmentum
* medicātiō
* medicātor
* medicātus

##### 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: /meˈdiko/ [meˈð̞i.ko]
* Rhymes: -iko
* Syllabification: me‧di‧co

### Verb

medico
* first-person singular present indicative of medicar