medicina

See also: medicină, medicīna, medicīnā, and medicína

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Noun

medicina f (plural medicines)

1. medicine

Related terms

• medicinal

Further reading

• “medicina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “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.

Corsican

Alternative forms

• midicina

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mediˈt͡ʃina/

Noun

medicina f

1. medicine

References

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin medicina. Doublet of menciña.

Noun

medicina f (uncountable)

1. medicine (field of study)

Related terms

• medicinal

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/

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

Noun

medicina f (plural medicine)

1. medicine (all senses)

Related terms

• medicinale
• medico

Anagrams

• mendicai

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkiː.na/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/, [med̪iˈt͡ʃiːnä]

Noun

medicīna f (genitive medicīnae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	medicīna	medicīnae
genitive	medicīnae	medicīnārum
dative	medicīnae	medicīnīs
accusative	medicīnam	medicīnās
ablative	medicīnā	medicīnīs
vocative	medicīna	medicīnae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: medicina
• North Italian:
  • Ligurian: meixina
  • Old Venetan: meesina
  • Piedmontese: meisina
  • Romansch: maschdina
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: mecine
  • Old Northern French: mechine
    • Norman: mèchine, merchine
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: metzina
  • Old Occitan: metzina, mecina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Mirandese: malzina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: meezinha
    • Galician: menciña
    • Portuguese: mezinha
  • Old Spanish: melezina
    • Ladino: melezina
    • Spanish: melecina (obsolete)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: medichina, meichina, meighina
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Old Irish: midchuina
  • ⇒ Welsh: meddyginiaeth

Later borrowings:

• → Catalan: medicina, medecina
• → Czech: medicína
• → Estonian: meditsiin
• → Finnish: medisiina (jargon)
• → Galician: medicina
• → Latvian: medicīna
• → Lithuanian: medicina
• → Occitan: medecina, medicina
• → Old French: medecine
  • French: médecine
  • → English: medicine
  • → German: Medizin
  • → Norwegian: medisin
• → Polish: medycyna
  • → Russian: медицина (medicina)
• → Portuguese: medicina
• → Romanian: medicină
• → Spanish: medicina
• → Swedish: medicin

References

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

Further reading

• “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

Lithuanian

Etymology

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”).

Noun

medicina f

1. medicine (the field of study)

Declension

Declension of medicìna

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	medicìna	medicìnos
genitive (kilmininkas)	medicìnos	medicìnų
dative (naudininkas)	medicìnai	medicìnoms
accusative (galininkas)	medicìną	medicìnas
instrumental (įnagininkas)	medicìna	medicìnomis
locative (vietininkas)	medicìnoje	medicìnose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	medicìna	medicìnos

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• medecina (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈsĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈsĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /me.d͡ʒiˈsi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ.diˈsi.nɐ/ [mɨ.ðiˈsi.nɐ], /mɨ.dɨˈsi.nɐ/ [mɨ.ðɨˈsi.nɐ]

• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧na

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine (field of study)

Derived terms

• medicina forense
• medicina holística
• medicina interna
• medicina legal
• medicina nuclear
• medicina tropical
• medicina veterinária

Related terms

(deprecated template usage)

• medicinal
• medicinalmente
• medicinar
• medicineira
• médico
• mezinha

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

medicína f (Cyrillic spelling медици́на)

1. (uncountable) medicine (science)

Declension

Declension of medicina

	singular
nominative	medicina
genitive	medicine
dative	medicini
accusative	medicinu
vocative	medicino
locative	medicini
instrumental	medicinom

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛdit͡síːna/

Noun

medicȋna f

1. medicine (field of study)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

See also

• zdravílo

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Colombia):

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin medicīna. Compare the form melecina.

Noun

medicina f (plural medicinas)

1. medicine

   Synonyms: medicamento, remedio

Derived terms

• dosis de su propia medicina
• medicina alternativa
• medicina forense
• medicina legal
• nanomedicina

Related terms

• médica
• medicinal
• medicinar
• médico

Descendants

• → Maranao: midisina
• → Tagalog: medisina

Etymology 2

Verb

medicina

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

Further reading

• “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], 2024 December 10