medicare

See also: Medicare and medicaré

English

Noun

medicare (uncountable)

1. (Canada) The Canadian public health insurance system.
   • 2009 January 20, Les Whittington, “Ignatieff decries Harper's 'plan'”, in Toronto Star‎^[1]:

     He said, for him, the Liberals defined Canada by championing medicare and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by addressing such issues as same-sex marriage.

Related terms

• denticare
• pharmacare

Anagrams

• ceramide

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.diˈka.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: me‧di‧cà‧re

Verb

medicàre (first-person singular present mèdico, first-person singular past historic medicài, past participle medicàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

1. to dress (a wound)
2. to treat (an injured patient)
3. (agriculture) to treat (the soil) with disinfectants or preservatives
4. (winemaking) to chemically treat (wine) (to improve its quality and reduce impurities)
5. (figurative) to soothe, to heal (psychic wounds, etc.)
6. (rare) to correct (a defect)
7. (archaic) to heal (a patient)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of medicàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)

infinitive	medicàre
auxiliary verb		avére	gerund		medicàndo
present participle		medicànte	past participle		medicàto
person	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	mèdico	mèdichi	mèdica	medichiàmo	medicàte	mèdicano
imperfect	medicàvo	medicàvi	medicàva	medicavàmo	medicavàte	medicàvano
past historic	medicài	medicàsti	medicò	medicàmmo	medicàste	medicàrono
future	medicherò	medicherài	medicherà	medicherémo	medicheréte	medicherànno
conditional	io	tu	lui/lei, esso/essa	noi	voi	loro, essi/esse
present	medicherèi	medicherésti	medicherèbbe, medicherébbe	medicherémmo	medicheréste	medicherèbbero, medicherébbero
subjunctive	che io	che tu	che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa	che noi	che voi	che loro, che essi/che esse
present	mèdichi	mèdichi	mèdichi	medichiàmo	medichiàte	mèdichino
imperfect	medicàssi	medicàssi	medicàsse	medicàssimo	medicàste	medicàssero
imperative	—	tu	Lei	noi	voi	Loro
		mèdica	mèdichi	medichiàmo	medicàte	mèdichino
negative imperative		non medicàre	non mèdichi	non medichiàmo	non medicàte	non mèdichino

Related terms

• medicabile
• medicarsi
• medicazione
• medico

Anagrams

• decimare, decimerà

Latin

Verb

medicāre

1. inflection of medicō:
   1. present active infinitive
   2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

medicare

1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of medicar