клініка

Ukrainian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Klinik, from French clinique, from Late Latin clīnicus (a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician), from Ancient Greek κλῑνικός (klīnikós, pertaining to a bed), from κλῑ́νη (klī́nē, bed), from κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, to lean, incline).[1] Compare Russian кли́ника (klínika), Polish klinika.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈklʲinʲikɐ]
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Noun

клі́ніка • (klínika) f inan (genitive клі́ніки, nominative plural клі́ніки, genitive plural клі́нік, relational adjective кліні́чний)

  1. clinic

Declension

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “клініка”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

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