medicina

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.ðiˈsi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [me.ðiˈsi.na]

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medicina f (plural medicines)

1. medicine

• medicinal

• “medicina”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “medicina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “medicina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “medicina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• midicina

From Latin medicina. Cognates include Italian medicina and French médecine.

• IPA^(key): /mediˈt͡ʃina/

medicina f

1. medicine

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

Learned borrowing from Latin medicina. Doublet of menciña.

medicina f (uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

• medicinal

• “medicina”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Latin medicina.

• IPA^(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧cì‧na

medicina f (plural medicine)

1. medicine (all senses)

• medicinale
• medico

• mendicai

Substantive of the feminine of medicīnus (“medical”), an adjective based on medicus (“doctor”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛ.dɪˈkiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [me.d̪iˈt͡ʃiː.na]

medicīna f (genitive medicīnae); first declension

1. medicine, remedy, cure
2. practice or art of medicine or healing

First-declension noun.

Later borrowings:

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĕdĭcīna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 598

• “medicina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “medicina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "medicina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• medicina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a philosopher, physician by profession: philosophiam, medicinam profiteri
    
• “medicina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “medicina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Ultimately from Latin medicīna (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medicinus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medeor (“I heal”).

medicina f

1. medicine (the field of study)

• medecina (obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin medicīna (“medicine”), from medicīnus (“medical”), from medicus, from medeor (“to heal; to cure”). Doublet of mezinha.

• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine (field of study)

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

• IPA^(key): /medit͡sǐːna/
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

medicína f (Cyrillic spelling медици́на)

1. (uncountable) medicine (science)

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

• IPA^(key): /mɛdit͡síːna/

medicȋna f

1. medicine (field of study)

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Feminine, a-stem
nominative	medicína
genitive	medicíne
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	medicína
genitive (rodȋlnik)	medicíne
dative (dajȃlnik)	medicíni
accusative (tožȋlnik)	medicíno
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	medicíni
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	medicíno

• zdravílo

• IPA^(key): /mediˈθina/ [me.ð̞iˈθi.na] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /mediˈsina/ [me.ð̞iˈsi.na] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: me‧di‧ci‧na

Borrowed from Latin medicīna. Compare the form melecina.

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine

   Synonyms: medicamento, remedio

• → Maranao: midisina
• → Paraujano: merisiina
• → Tagalog: medisina

medicina

1. inflection of medicinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “medicina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024