The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμηδίκη
- Latin · derived frommēdica
- Middle English · inherited frommedike
- English todaymedick
From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”); so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.
Words from the same roots
Latinmēdica all →
Meditrina
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.