medico
noun
a physician or surgeon; doctor.
medico
1 American
[med-i-koh]
/ ˈmɛd ɪˌkoʊ /
noun
Informal.
medicos
plural
-
a physician or surgeon; doctor.
-
a medical student.
medico-
2
American
medico-
1
British
combining form
medico
2
British
/ ˈmɛdɪˌkəʊ /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of medico1
1680–90; < Spanish médico, Italian medico < Latin medicus physician; see medical
Origin of medico-2
Combining form representing Latin medicus of, pertaining to healing; see medical
Example Sentences
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Hat, coat, small leather attaché case, like an Old World medico doing his rounds.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019
Dr. Adams, who goes by the nickname Patch Adams, was featured in the 1998 film by the same name, in which Robin Williams played the zany medico.
From Washington Times ● May 25, 2018
The young medico returns, full of his new knowledge, to find that the ills of Kings Row are still beyond his scope.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the regular medical subjects are taught, though from a different point of view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They're too wary," replied the somewhat pessimistic medico.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
There has been, especially in Germany, a great deal of medico- philosophical exposure of the under-side of life since 1880.
From Henrik Ibsen by Gosse, Edmund
In the 21st century, most vampires don’t sup on human victims — consider the contagions they might pick up — but acquire their blood supply through friends and unscrupulous medicos.
From Time ● Apr. 9, 2014
Indeed, as soon as the roving medicos alight in a village, mothers with sickly children slung on their backs converge on the teams.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2012
Today medicos do not always find it necessary to fortress their ignorance with esoteric metaphors; many can talk, some can even write, of their calling refreshingly, candidly, in simple words.
From Time Magazine Archive
While King George's physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, nodded sagely over the operating table, the learned medicos removed his prostate gland.
From Time Magazine Archive
The spaceman had been cleaned up and bandaged by the native medicos.
From Exile by Fyfe, Horace Brown
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