## Etymology
From Old French fisique ('medicine, natural science'), from Latin physica ('study of nature'), from Ancient Greek physike ('natural'), from physis ('nature'), from phuein ('to bring forth, grow').

## AI Etymology
Physic comes from Old French fisique ('medicine, natural science'), from Latin physica ('study of nature'), from Ancient Greek physike ('natural'), from physis ('nature'), from phuein ('to bring forth, grow'). The etymological trail includes Ancient Greek physis and Ancient Greek phuein. As a noun, physic means a medicine, especially a purgative; the art of healing (archaic). The same family is visible in derived forms such as physical, physician, and physics and related forms such as physique, physiology, and metaphysics.

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