medicaster

Senso (Inglese)

A quack doctor; someone who pretends to have medical knowledge.

sinonimi

wise man

charlatan

sorcerer

Traduzioni

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medicastro

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈmɛdɪkastə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From French médicastre or Italian medicastro, from Late Latin medicaster, from Latin medicus (“a doctor, a physician; a surgeon”) + -aster (suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance, which are thus usually pejorative).