médecine

Inherited from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, borrowed from Latin medicīna. Replaced the inherited Old French form mecine.

• IPA^(key): /med.sin/ ~ /mɛd.sin/
• Rhymes: -in

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• Homophones: médecinent, médecines

médecine f (plural médecines)

1. medicine (field of study)

• médecine alternative
• médecine légale
• médecine non conventionnelle

• médicament
• médecin

médecine

1. inflection of médeciner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “médecine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.