medicului

Medicului is a Romanian morphological form: it is the genitive/dative singular of the masculine noun medic (doctor) when the noun is definite. The base form medicul corresponds to “the doctor” in the nominative/accusative, and the ending -ului marks the genitive/dative case in the singular. This form is used to indicate possession or to indicate an indirect object in sentences where the noun represents the person to whom something relates.

Etymology and usage context: the word medic comes from Latin medicus, and Romanian retains a system of case forms for definite nouns that makes genitive/dative forms such as medicului common in a variety of constructions. The genitive/dative form medicului appears in possessive phrases (cartea medicului — the doctor's book) and in sentences where the doctor is the recipient of an action or the target of a verb (opinia medicului — the doctor's opinion).

Typical examples:

- Cartea medicului este pe masă. (The doctor’s book is on the table.)

- Îmi place opinia medicului. (I like the doctor’s opinion.)

These examples illustrate how medicului expresses ownership and relation without enlarging the noun phrase.

Notes: Medicului is part of standard Romanian grammar for masculine singular nouns with definite forms. It is not usually used as a standalone lexical item; rather, it functions grammatically to connect possession or indirect relation within a sentence. The corresponding plural forms exist but follow separate declension patterns.