# medicina
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [mə.ðiˈsi.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [me.ðiˈsi.na]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

medicina f (plural medicines)
* medicine

#### Related terms

* medicinal

### Further reading

* “medicina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “medicina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “medicina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “medicina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Corsican
### Alternative forms

* midicina

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mediˈt͡ʃina/

### Noun

medicina f
* medicine

#### References

* https://infcor.adecec.net/

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin medicina. Doublet of menciña.

### Noun

medicina f (uncountable)
* medicine (field of study)

#### Related terms

* medicinal

### Further reading

* “medicina”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin medicina.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

medicina f (plural medicine)
* medicine (all senses)

#### Related terms

* medicinale
* medico

### Anagrams

* mendicai

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /me.diˈkiː.na/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkiːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/, [med̪iˈt͡ʃiːnä]

### Noun

medicīna f (genitive medicīnae); first declension
* medicine, remedy, cure
* practice or art of medicine or healing

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: medicina
* North Italian:
** Ligurian: meixina
** Old Venetan: meesina
** Piedmontese: meisina
** Romansch: maschdina
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old French: mecine
** Old Northern French: mechine
*** Norman: mèchine, merchine
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: metzina
** Old Occitan: metzina, mecina
* Ibero-Romance:
** Mirandese: malzina
** Old Galician-Portuguese: meezinha
*** Galician: menciña
*** Portuguese: mezinha
** Old Spanish: melezina
*** Ladino: melezina
*** Spanish: melecina (obsolete)
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: medichina, meichina, meighina
* Ancient borrowings:
** → Old Irish: midchuina
** ⇒ Welsh: meddyginiaeth
Later borrowings:
* → Catalan: medicina, medecina
* → Czech: medicína
* → Estonian: meditsiin
* → Finnish: medisiina (jargon)
* → Galician: medicina
* → Latvian: medicīna
* → Lithuanian: medicina
* → Occitan: medecina, medicina
* → Old French: medecine
** French: médecine
** → English: medicine
** → German: Medizin
** → Norwegian: medisin
* → Polish: medycyna
** → Russian: медицина (medicina)
* → Portuguese: medicina
* → Romanian: medicină
* → Spanish: medicina
* → Swedish: medicin

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĕdĭcīna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 598

### 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
* medicine (the field of study)

#### Declension
## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* medecina (obsolete)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /me.d͡ʒiˈsĩ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /me.d͡ʒiˈsĩ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /me.d͡ʒiˈsi.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨ.diˈsi.nɐ/ [mɨ.ðiˈsi.nɐ], /mɨ.dɨˈsi.nɐ/ [mɨ.ðɨˈsi.nɐ]
* Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

### Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)
* medicine (field of study)

#### Derived terms

* medicina forense
* medicina holística
* medicina interna
* medicina legal
* medicina nuclear
* medicina tropical
* medicina veterinária

#### Related terms

* medicinal
* medicinalmente
* medicinar
* medicineira
* médico
* mezinha

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /medit͡sǐːna/
* Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

### Noun

medicína f (Cyrillic spelling медици́на)
* (uncountable) medicine (science)

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛdit͡síːna/

### Noun

medicȋna f
* medicine (field of study)

#### See also

* zdravílo

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /mediˈθina/ [me.ð̞iˈθi.na]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /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)
* medicine
    Synonyms: medicamento, remedio

##### Derived terms

* dosis de su propia medicina
* medicina alternativa
* medicina forense
* medicina intensiva
* medicina legal
* medicina nuclear
* nanomedicina

##### Related terms

* médica
* medicinal
* medicinar
* médico

##### Descendants

* → Maranao: midisina
* → Paraujano: merisiina
* → Tagalog: medisina

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

medicina
* inflection of medicinar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “medicina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10