clinicus

Latin

FWOTD – 6 January 2016

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, the bed). See also clīnicē.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkliː.ni.kus/, [ˈkliː.nɪ.kʊs]

Noun

clīnicus m (genitive clīnicī); second declension

  1. (post-classical) a physician who tends to patients who are bedridden
  2. (post-classical) a bearer of the bier, sexton, gravedigger
  3. (Late Latin) a patient who is bedridden
  4. (Late Latin) one who is baptized when ill or infirm

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative clīnicus clīnicī
Genitive clīnicī clīnicōrum
Dative clīnicō clīnicīs
Accusative clīnicum clīnicōs
Ablative clīnicō clīnicīs
Vocative clīnice clīnicī

Descendants

References

  • clīnĭcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • clinicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • clinicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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