clinicus
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Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “the bed”). See also clīnicē.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkliː.ni.kus/, [ˈklʲiːnɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkli.ni.kus/, [ˈkliːnikus]
Noun
clīnicus m (genitive clīnicī); second declension
- (post-classical) a physician who tends to patients who are bedridden
- (post-classical) a bearer of the bier, sexton, gravedigger
- (Late Latin) a patient who is bedridden
- (Late Latin) one who is baptized when ill or infirm
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “clīnĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- clinicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “clinicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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