clinicus

Latin

FWOTD – 6 January 2016

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, “the bed”). See also clīnicē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkliː.ni.kus/, [ˈklʲiːnɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.ni.kus/, [ˈkliːnikus]

Noun

clīnicus m (genitive clīnicī); second declension

1. (post-classical) a physician who tends to patients who are bedridden
2. (post-classical) a bearer of the bier, sexton, gravedigger
3. (Late Latin) a patient who is bedridden
4. (Late Latin) one who is baptized when ill or infirm

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	clīnicus	clīnicī
genitive	clīnicī	clīnicōrum
dative	clīnicō	clīnicīs
accusative	clīnicum	clīnicōs
ablative	clīnicō	clīnicīs
vocative	clīnice	clīnicī

Descendants

• French: clinique
• German: Klinik
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: klinikk

References

• “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