medic

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to medicines; medical.

Noun

• A physician.
• A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military.
• A medical student.
• Alternate spelling of medick

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin medicus ("of or belonging to healing, curative, medical; as a noun, medicus, masculine, a physician, doctor, surgeon"), Late Latin medica, from medeor.