empiricus

Borrowed from Latin empīricus.

• IPA^(key): /ɛmˈpi.ri.kʏs/

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empiricus m (plural empirici, diminutive empiricusje n)

1. empiricist

• empēricus

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

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

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.

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

Second-declension noun.

• empīrica
• empīricē

• “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)