clinicus

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

clīnĭcus: i, m., = κλινικός> [[[κλίνη]]>, the bed.
I A physician who attends patients sick in bed, Mart. 9, 97; cf. MEDICVS, Inscr. Orell. 2983: deus, Prud. Apoth. 205.—
II A patient confined to his bed, Hier. Ep. 105, n. 5.—
III A bearer of the bier, sexton, grave-digger, Mart. 3, 93, 24 (al. archiclinico; cf. id. 1, 31).—
One who was baptized when sick or infirm, Cypr. Ep. 69 fin.>