different between curative vs vulnerary

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kj??.?.t?v/

Etymology 1

From Middle French curatif.

Adjective

curative (comparative more curative, superlative most curative)

1. Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

   The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.

Translations

See also

• therapeutic
• remedial

Noun

curative (plural curatives)

1. A substance that acts as a cure.

Etymology 2

Adjective

curative (not comparable)

1. (grammar) of a verb, conveying the meaning "the agent makes a patient do something"

Usage notes

• Curative verbs are common in Uralic languages.

Hypernyms

• causative

Translations

Further reading

• 2011 article by Geda Paulsen in Linguistica Uralica, available online in The Free Library [1]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.?a.tiv/

Adjective

curative

1. feminine singular of curatif

Italian

Adjective

curative

1. feminine plural of curativo

Anagrams

• curatevi, curviate, ricevuta

English

Etymology

From Latin vulner?rius, from vulnus (“wound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?l.n??.??.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?v?l.n?.??.i/

Adjective

vulnerary (comparative more vulnerary, superlative most vulnerary)

1. Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 28,^[1]

     Rebecca examined the wound, and having applied to it such vulnerary remedies as her art prescribed, informed her father that [...] there was nothing to fear for his guest’s life.

   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 422 (footnote):

     Take, for example, the famous vulnerary ointment attributed to Paracelsus.

2. (archaic, rare) Causing wounds, wounding.

Usage notes

• Restricted in modern use primarily to works on ethnobotany and traditional medicine.

Translations

Noun

vulnerary (plural vulneraries)

1. A healing drug or other agent used in healing and treating wounds.

Translations

See also

• vulnerable