empirice

From the Ancient Greek ἐμπειρῐκή (empeirikḗ, “the doctrine of the Empiric school of physicians”).

• empīrica

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /emˈpiː.ri.keː/, [ɛmˈpiːrɪkeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /emˈpi.ri.t͡ʃe/, [emˈpiːrit͡ʃe]

empīricē f (genitive empīricēs); first declension

1. (medicine) medical empiricism (a system of medicine founded wholly on experience and practice)

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

• empīrica
• empīricus

• “empīrĭce”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 empīrĭca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “587/1”
• “empīricus · b” on page 606/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

A regularly declined form of empīricus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /emˈpiː.ri.ke/, [ɛmˈpiːrɪkɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /emˈpi.ri.t͡ʃe/, [emˈpiːrit͡ʃe]

empīrice m

1. vocative singular of empīricus