medicina

See also: medicină, medicīna, medicīnā, and medicína

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin medicina. Doublet of metzina.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

medicina f (plural medicines)

1. medicine

Related terms

• medicinal

Further reading

• “medicina”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “medicina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “medicina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “medicina”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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, 2012–2026

Italian

Etymology

From Latin medicina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.diˈt͡ʃi.na/

• Audio:

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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): [mɛ.dɪˈkiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [me.diˈt͡ʃiː.na]

Noun

medicīna f (genitive medicīnae); first declension

1. medicine, remedy, cure
2. practice or art of medicine or healing
3. doctor's clinic or pharmacy

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
  • Romansh: maschdina
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: mecine
  • Old Northern French: mechine
    • Norman: mèchine, merchine
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: metzina
  • Old Occitan: metzina, mecina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: medecina, melizina
    • Asturian: melecina
    • Leonese: medecina, melecina
    • Mirandese: malzina
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: meezinha
    • Galician: menciña
    • Portuguese: mezinha
  • Old Spanish: melezina
    • Ladino: melezina
    • Spanish: melecina (obsolete)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: medichina, meichina, meighina
  • Sicilian: midicina
• 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
  • Middle French: medicine
    • French: médecine
  • → English: medicine
  • → Middle Low German: medicīne, medicīn, medecīn
    • Plautdietsch: Medizien
  • → 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 (in German), volume 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, 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 (“to heal”).

Noun

medicina f

1. medicine (the field of study)

Declension

Declension of medici̇̀na

	singular	plural
nominative	medici̇̀na	medici̇̀nos
genitive	medici̇̀nos	medici̇̀nų
dative	medici̇̀nai	medici̇̀noms
accusative	medici̇̀ną	medici̇̀nas
instrumental	medici̇̀na	medici̇̀nomis
locative	medici̇̀noje	medici̇̀nose
vocative	medici̇̀na	medici̇̀nos

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/

 

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

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

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

Further reading

• “medicina”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “medicina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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)

   Medicina mi je zakonita žena, a književnost ljubavnica. ― Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. (quote by Anton Chekhov)

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)

Declension

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

• 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 intensiva
• medicina legal
• medicina nuclear
• nanomedicina

Related terms

• médica
• medicinal
• medicinar
• médico

Descendants

• → Maranao: midisina
• → Paraujano: merisiina
• → 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025