# medicus
## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeː.diˌkʏs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: me‧di‧cus

### Noun

medicus m (plural medici, diminutive medicusje n, feminine medica)
* doctor, physician

#### Synonyms

* arts
* dokter
* geneesheer

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: medikus

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From medeor (“heal, cure”) +‎ -icus.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈme.di.kus/, [ˈmɛd̪ɪkʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈme.di.kus/, [ˈmɛːd̪ikus]

#### Adjective

medicus (feminine medica, neuter medicum); first/second-declension adjective
* healing, curative, medical
* magic

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

#### Noun

medicus m (genitive medicī); second declension
* a doctor, physician, surgeon
    Nuper erat medicus, nunc est vespillo Diaulus: quod vespillo facit, fecerat et medicus. (Lately was Diaulus a doctor, now he is an undertaker. What the undertaker now does the doctor too did before.) — Martial I.xlvii (translation by Walter Ker).
* medicine

##### Declension

Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | medicus | medicī |
| Genitive | medicī | medicōrum |
| Dative | medicō | medicīs |
| Accusative | medicum | medicōs |
| Ablative | medicō | medicīs |
| Vocative | medice | medicī |

#### Derived terms

* medica
* medicīnus
* medicō
* medicor

#### Descendants

* Dalmatian:
** medco
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: medico, medeco (regional variant); Medici
** Neapolitan: miedeco
** Sicilian: medicu
* North Italian:
** Friulian: miedi
** Ligurian: mêgo
** Romansch: medi, miedi, meidi
** Venetian: medego, miedego
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: metge
** Franco-Provençal: mêjo
** Old French: mege, miege, mirie, mire
*** French: mège, meige, mire (all archaic)
** Walloon: méde
** Occitan: mètge
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: medicu, meicu, megu, meigu
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: mélicu
* Ancient borrowings
** → Proto-Albanian: *mʲeðək
*** Albanian: mjek
** → Proto-Brythonic: *meðɨg
*** Breton: mezeg
*** Cornish: medhek
*** Welsh: meddyg
* Later borrowings:
** → Aromanian: medicu
** → Dutch: medicus
** → English: medic
** → Polish: medyk
** → Portuguese: médico
** → Romanian: medic
** → Russian: медик (medik)
** → Spanish: médico
*** → Asturian: médicu

### Etymology 2

Mēdus (“Mede”) +‎ -icus

#### Alternative forms

* Mēdicus

#### Adjective

mēdicus (feminine mēdica, neuter mēdicum); first/second-declension adjective
* Median, Median language

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Descendants

* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *melica
** Catalan: melca, melga
** Galician: melga
** Spanish: mielga

### References

* “medicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “medicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* medicus 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)
* medicus 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: se philosophum, medicum (esse) profiteri
* “medicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “medicus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin