medic

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdɪk/

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• Homophone: medick
• Rhymes: -ɛdɪk

Borrowed from Latin medicus m (“of or belonging to healing, curative, medical; as a noun, medicus, masculine, a physician, doctor, surgeon”), Late Latin medica f (“a female physician, midwife”), from mederi (“to heal”).

medic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to medicines; medical.

medic (plural medics)

1. A physician.
2. A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military.
3. A medical student.

medic (usually uncountable, plural medics)

1. Alternative spelling of medick (“herb of the genus Medicago”).

• “medic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “medic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “medic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• decim, demic, miced

Borrowed from Latin medicus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.dik/

medic m or n (feminine singular medică, masculine plural medici, feminine and neuter plural medice)

1. medical

   Synonym: medical

medic m (plural medici, feminine equivalent medică)

1. doctor, physician

   Synonym: doctor

• protomedic

From med (“Median”) +‎ -ic.

medic m or n (feminine singular medică, masculine plural medici, feminine and neuter plural medice)

1. Median

• med
• Media

• “medic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025