medicus

From Middle Dutch medicus, borrowed from Latin medicus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.diˌkʏs/

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• Hyphenation: me‧di‧cus

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

1. doctor, physician

• arts
• dokter
• geneesheer

• Afrikaans: medikus

From medeor (“heal, cure”) +‎ -icus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.kus/, [ˈmɛ.dɪ.kʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.kus/, [ˈmeː.di.kus]

medicus (feminine medica, neuter medicum); first/second declension

1. healing, curative, medical

First/second declension.

medicus m (genitive medicī); second declension

1. 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).

Second declension.

From medus (“Mede”).

medicus

1. Median, Median language

• 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, 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