medico

medico (plural medicos)

1. (informal, humorous) 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, Time, 8 April, 1929,

     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 and Ben Dorries”, in Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries‎:

     "I haven't got the final clearance from the medicos but that's the plan."

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.di.ko/, [ˈmɛːd̪iko]

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• Stress: mèdico
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧co

From Latin medicus, derived from medicō (“cure, heal”).

medico (feminine singular medica, masculine plural medici, feminine plural mediche)

1. medical

medico m (plural medici)

1. (Medicine) doctor, physician

• dottore

• chirurgo

See the etymology of the main entry.

medico

1. first-person singular present indicative of medicare

• decimo, decimò

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.koː/

From medicus (“medical”).

medicō (present infinitive medicāre, perfect active medicāvī, supine medicātum); first conjugation

1. I heal, cure.
2. I give healing power to.
3. I medicate.
4. I dye with color.

medicō

1. dative singular of medicus
2. ablative singular of medicus

• 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

medico

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of medicar.