clinicus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “the bed”). See also clīnicē.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkliː.ni.kus/, [ˈklʲiːnɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkli.ni.kus/, [ˈkliːnikus]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | clīnicus | clīnicī |
Genitive | clīnicī | clīnicōrum |
Dative | clīnicō | clīnicīs |
Accusative | clīnicum | clīnicōs |
Ablative | clīnicō | clīnicīs |
Vocative | clīnice | clīnicī |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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