English
medic
Medic comes from Latin medicus ‘of or belonging to healing, curative, medical’, and goes back to medeor ‘to heal’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedeoras mederi‘to heal’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicus‘of or belonging to healing, curative, medical’
- Englishtodaymedic
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedeoras mederi‘to heal’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicus‘of or belonging to healing, curative, medical’
- Englishtodaymedic
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *med- ‘to measure, give advice, heal’
must, model, modern, mode, mood, mud, module, mold, blackmail, meditation, modal, modus, modulate, mote, moulder, mete, modifiable, 33 more
through Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
commodity, modification, mould, modulation, molding, modulus, modulo, modicum, 15 more
through Latin medeor ‘to heal’
through Latin medicus ‘of or belonging to healing, curative, medical’
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to medicines; medical.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin medeor / medic