clinicus

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkliː.ni.kus/, [ˈkliː.nɪ.kʊs]

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

Second declension.

• French: clinique

• 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