physician
要点医者、内科医
意味
- 医者;(特に)内科医
例文
A six-figure income isn't uncommon for physicians.
医者なら6桁の収入は珍しくない。
Mr. Suzuki isn't a dentist. He's a physician.
鈴木さんは歯科医ではなく、内科医だ。
The physician prescribed his patient some medicine.
医者は患者に薬を処方した。
語源
ラテン語physica「自然学」から。自然(体の仕組み)の学問に通じた人「医者・内科医」。
physicist(物理学者)と混同しやすいので注意。
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English fisicien, from Old French fisicïen (“physician”) (modern French physicien (“physicist”)), from fisique (“art of healing”), from Latin physica (“natural science”), from Ancient Greek φυσική ἐπιστήμη (phusikḗ epistḗmē, “knowledge of nature”), from φυσικός (phusikós, “pertaining to nature”). Displaced native Middle English læche, leche, archaic English leech (“physician”). Morphologically physic + -ian.