medicare

See also: Medicare and medicaré

English

Noun

medicare (uncountable)

  1. (Canada) The Canadian public health insurance system.
    • 2009 January 20, Les Whittington, “Ignatieff decries Harper's 'plan'”, in Toronto Star‎[1]:
      He said, for him, the Liberals defined Canada by championing medicare and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by addressing such issues as same-sex marriage.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me.diˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧cà‧re

Verb

medicàre (first-person singular present mèdico, first-person singular past historic medicài, past participle medicàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to dress (a wound)
  2. to treat (an injured patient)
  3. (agriculture) to treat (the soil) with disinfectants or preservatives
  4. (winemaking) to chemically treat (wine) (to improve its quality and reduce impurities)
  5. (figurative) to soothe, to heal (psychic wounds, etc.)
  6. (rare) to correct (a defect)
  7. (archaic) to heal (a patient)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of medicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive medicàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund medicàndo
present participle medicànte past participle medicàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present mèdico mèdichi mèdica medichiàmo medicàte mèdicano
imperfect medicàvo medicàvi medicàva medicavàmo medicavàte medicàvano
past historic medicài medicàsti medicò medicàmmo medicàste medicàrono
future medicherò medicherài medicherà medicherémo medicheréte medicherànno
conditional medicherèi medicherésti medicherèbbe, medicherébbe medicherémmo medicheréste medicherèbbero, medicherébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present mèdichi mèdichi mèdichi medichiàmo medichiàte mèdichino
imperfect medicàssi medicàssi medicàsse medicàssimo medicàste medicàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
mèdica mèdichi medichiàmo medicàte mèdichino
negative imperative non medicàre non mèdichi non medichiàmo non medicàte non mèdichino

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Latin

Verb

medicāre

  1. inflection of medicō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

medicare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of medicar
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