The story
- Latin · derived frommedicus
- Welsh · borrowed frommeddyglyn
- English todaymetheglin
From Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“doctor, healer”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).
Words from the same roots
Latinmedicus all →
maymedicalmedicmedicaster
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.