different between allheal vs panacea

English

Alternative forms

• all-heal, all heal

Etymology

From all +? heal. Compare Latin panax and panacea.

Noun

allheal (plural allheals)

1. Any of several plants supposed to have broad healing powers.
   1. Prunella vulgaris, a species in the mint family.

      Synonyms: common self-heal, selfheal, heal-all, woundwort, heart-of-the-earth, carpenter's herb, brownwort

   2. Stachys, a genus of plants in the mint family, heal-all, self-heal, woundwort, betony, lamb's ears, hedgenettle.
   3. Valeriana officinalis, a species in the valerian family.

      Synonyms: garden valerian, garden heliotrope, setwall

Translations

See also

• heal-all
• selfheal
• valerian

References

• allheal at OneLook Dictionary Search
• allheal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Lea Hall, heal-all, healall

English

Alternative forms

• panacaea
• panacæa

Etymology

From Latin panac?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (panákeia), from ??????? (panak?s, “all-healing”), from ??? (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ???? (ákos, “cure”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: p?n"?-s?'?, IPA^(key): /?pæn.??si?.?/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

panacea (plural panaceas or panaceae or panaceæ)

1. A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.

   Synonym: heal-all

2. Something that will solve all problems.

   A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.

3. (obsolete) The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]

Synonyms

• (remedy to cure all disease): catholicon, cure-all, elixir, wonder drug
• (solution to all problems): miracle, magic bullet, silver bullet
• (plant): allheal, woundwort

Translations

See also

• nostrum

Italian

Etymology

From Latin panac?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (panákeia), from ??????? (panak?s, “all-healing”), from ??? (pân, “all”) + ???? (ákos, “cure”).

Noun

panacea f (plural panacee)

1. panacea, cure-all

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (panákeia) from ??????? (panak?s, “all-healing”), from ??? (pân, “all”) + ???? (ákos, “cure”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.na?ke?.a/, [pänä?ke?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.na?t??e.a/, [p?n??t?????]

Noun

panac?a f (genitive panac?ae); first declension

1. A particular kind of plant, believed to cure all diseases.
2. panacea, catholicon.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• panacinus

Descendants

References

• panacea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• panacea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• panacea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• panacea in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin panac?a, Ancient Greek ???????? (panákeia), from ??????? (panak?s, “all-healing”), from ??? (pân, “all”) + ???? (ákos, “cure”).

Noun

panacea f (plural panaceas)

1. panacea