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medico (plural medicos)

1. (informal) 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, [1]

     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 April 8, Time:

     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, Ben Dorries, “Clark, Symonds and Jaques ready to test injuries”, in Herald Sun‎^[2], archived from the original on 22 January 2009:

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

medico

1. first-person singular present indicative of medicar

• medeco (regional variant)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.di.ko/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdiko
• Hyphenation: mè‧di‧co

Inherited from Latin medicus. Compare Neapolitan miedeco.

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

1. medical

medico m (plural medici)

1. (medicine) doctor, physician

   Synonym: dottore

• chirurgo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

medico

1. first-person singular present indicative of medicare

• comedi, decimo, decimò, demico

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛ.dɪ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː.d̪i.ko]

From medicus (“medical”).

• medicor (deponent)

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

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

The passive is sometimes used with active meaning; see medicor.

medicō

1. dative/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 present indicative of medicar

• IPA^(key): /meˈdiko/ [meˈð̞i.ko]
• Rhymes: -iko
• Syllabification: me‧di‧co

medico

1. first-person singular present indicative of medicar