different between concoction vs mixtion

English

Etymology

From Latin concocti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?k?k??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?k?k??n/, [k??n?k??k??n], [k????k??k??n]

Noun

concoction (countable and uncountable, plural concoctions)

1. The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
2. A mixture prepared in such a way.
3. Something made up, an invention.
4. (obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).

   • [Sorrow] hinders concoction, refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […]

5. (obsolete, figuratively) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
6. (obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
7. (obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.

   • There are also divers other great alterations of matter and bodies , besides those that tend to concoction and maturation

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin concocti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.k?k.sj??/

Noun

concoction f (plural concoctions)

1. concoction (mixture)

Further reading

• “concoction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin concocti?nem.

Noun

concoction f (plural concoctions)

1. concoction (mixture)

English

Etymology

From Middle French mixtion, mixion, and its source, Latin mixti?, from mixtus (“mixed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?kst??n/

Noun

mixtion (countable and uncountable, plural mixtions)

1. (archaic) The act or process of mixing; the state of being mixed or becoming mixed; a mixture.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.17:

     Nor are there hardly any who either treat of mutation or mixtion of sexes, who have not left some mention of this point […]

2. (obsolete) A compound of drugs; a medicinal concoction.
3. (obsolete) A chemical compound.
4. (obsolete) In gilding, a mixture of amber, mastic, and asphalt used as a size or mordant for affixing gold leaf to wood or to distemper pictures.
5. (obsolete) The addition of something as an ingredient; admixture; the presence of a heterogeneous element in a mixture or compound.
6. (obsolete) A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “mixtion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mixti?.

Pronunciation

Noun

mixtion f (plural mixtions)

1. mixtion (compound of drugs)

Further reading

• “mixtion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mixti?.

Noun

mixtion f (oblique plural mixtions, nominative singular mixtion, nominative plural mixtions)

1. mixtion (compound of drugs)

Synonyms

• commixtion