medicaster
English
/ˈmɛdɪkastə/, /ˈmɛdəˌkæstɚ/
noun
Definitions
- (dated) A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.
Etymology
Derived from French médicastre derived from Italian medicastro derived from Latin medicaster, medicus (doctor, a physician, physician, as a noun, a surgeon, medicus, curative, healing, surgeon, of belonging to healing, medicine, medical, a doctor, masculine).
Origin
Latin
medicus
Gloss
doctor, a physician, physician, as a noun, a surgeon, medicus, curative, healing, surgeon, of belonging to healing, medicine, medical, a doctor, masculine
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
医
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- medic English
- *medicāster Latin
- medeor Latin
- medicalis Latin
- medicaster Latin
- medicinus Latin
- medicus Latin
- medicālis Latin
- medikus Hungarian
- medicastro Italian
- medico Italian
- médicastre French
- медик Russian
- médico Spanish, Castilian
- *med- Proto-Indo-European
- médico Portuguese
- metge Catalan, Valencian
- medic Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- medicus Middle Dutch
- mjek Albanian
- mètge Occitan
- médicu Asturian
- miedi Friulian
- medego Venetian
- medco Dalmatian
- *meðïg Proto-Brythonic