medicinus Latin · revision 10027

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *med-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''medicīnus''' (feminine medicīna, neuter medicīnum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|medicus|-īnus|t1=physician]], from [[medeor]] “to heal”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces ⟨medeor⟩ to [[itc-pro|*med-ē-]], [[ine-pro|*med-|t=to measure]], with a shift from “to measure” to “to heal”, cognate with [[sga|midithir|t=measures, judges]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Plautus, and Gaffiot cites Varro's ''Dē linguā Latīnā''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant of a physician, medical, especially in ''ars medicīna'' or ''rēs medicīna'' “the art of healing”, as in Varro, Hyginus and Augustine, and Lewis & Short note that as an adjective it is only ante- and post-classical, while the feminine noun [[medicīna]] “medicine” is classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ English ''medicine'' (c. 1200) comes from its feminine through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro has ''ars medicīna''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a physician, [[m|en|medical]], ''ars medicīna'', [[m|en|medicine]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[medicīna]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[medicus]]

+ * [[medeor]]

+ * [[en|medicine]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}