empiricusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Ancient Greek ἐμπειρῐκός (empeirĭkós), which has in the plural the sense οἱ ἐμπειρικοί (hoi empeirikoí, “the Empiric school of physicians”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɛmˈpiː.rɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [emˈpiː.ri.kus]

名詞

empīricus m (genitive empīricī); second declension

1. an empirical physician, an empiric (a physician whose knowledge of medicine is derived from experience, observation, and practice only, as opposed to scientific theory)
   • 45 BCE, Cicero, Academica 122:

     Corpora nostra non novimus, qui sint situs partium, quam vim quaeque pars habeat ignoramus; itaque medici ipsi, quorum intererat ea nosse, aperuerunt ut viderentur, nec eo tamen aiunt empirici notiora esse illa, quia possit fieri ut patefacta et detecta mutentur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Aulus Cornelius Celsus to this entry?)

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

関連する語

• empīrica
• empīricē

派生した語

参照

• “empīrĭcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “empiricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• empīrĭcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 587/1.
• “empīricus · a” on page 606/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)