medicaster

The story

1. Latin · derived frommedicus“a doctor, a physician; a surgeon”
2. Late Latin · derived frommedicaster
3. Italian · derived frommedicastro
4. French · derived frommédicastre
5. English todaymedicaster

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).

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