different between medico vs pharma

English

Noun

medico (plural medicos)

1. (informal, humorous) A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV, [1]

     She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young medico during the journey.

   • 1929, Time, 8 April, 1929, [2]

     He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.di.ko/
• Hyphenation: mè?di?co

Etymology 1

From Latin medicus, derived from medic? (“cure, heal”).

Adjective

medico (feminine medica, masculine plural medici, feminine plural mediche)

1. medical

Noun

medico m (plural medici)

1. (medicine) doctor, physician

   Synonym: dottore

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• chirurgo

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

medico

1. first-person singular present indicative of medicare

Anagrams

• decimo, decimò

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?me.di.ko?/, [?m?d??ko?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?me.di.ko/, [?m??d?ik?]

Etymology 1

From medicus (“medical”).

Verb

medic? (present infinitive medic?re, perfect active medic?v?, supine medic?tum); first conjugation

1. I heal, cure.
2. I give healing power to.
3. I medicate.
4. I dye with color.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

medic?

1. dative singular of medicus
2. ablative singular of medicus

References

• medico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medico in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Verb

medico

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of medicar.

English

Etymology

Clipping of pharmaceutical.

Noun

pharma (uncountable)

1. (business, pharmacy, pharmacology) The pharmaceutical or drug-making sector.

Derived terms

• big pharma

Related terms

• pharma-

Translations

Anagrams

• Parham, hapram

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?.ma/

Noun

pharma f (uncountable)

1. Clipping of pharmacie.

Adjective

pharma (invariable)

1. Clipping of pharmaceutique.