different between cure vs elixir

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kj??(?)/, /kj??(?)/, /kj??(?)/
• (General American) enPR: kyo?or, kyûr, IPA^(key): /kj??/, /kj?/
• (Norfolk) IPA^(key): /k??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?), -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cure, borrowed from Old French cure (“care, cure, healing, cure of souls”), from Latin cura (“care, medical attendance, cure”). Displaced native Old English h?lu.

Noun

cure (plural cures)

1. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
2. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
3. (figuratively) A solution to a problem.

   • Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.

   • 1763, Richard Hurd, On the Uses of Foreign Travel

     the proper cure of such prejudices

4. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
5. A process of solidification or gelling.
6. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
7. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.

   • vicarages of great cure, but small value

8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
   • c. 1646, Henry Spelman, De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis: Churches Not to Be Violated

     The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.

9. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

   Synonym: curacy

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English curen, from Old French curer, from Latin c?r?re. Partially displaced Old English ?eh?lan, whence Modern English heal.

Verb

cure (third-person singular simple present cures, present participle curing, simple past and past participle cured)

1. (transitive) To restore to health.

   Synonym: heal

2. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

3. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).

4. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

5. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
6. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.

7. To preserve (food), typically by salting
8. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.

9. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
10. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

• crue, cuer, ecru, écru

French

Etymology

From Middle French cure, from Old French cure, from Latin c?ra, from Proto-Indo-European *k?eys- (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

1. (archaic) care, concern
2. (obsolete) healing, recovery
3. (medicine) treatment; cure
4. (religion) vicarage, presbytery

Derived terms

• n'avoir cure

Related terms

• curer

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular present indicative of curer
2. third-person singular present indicative of curer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of curer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of curer
5. second-person singular imperative of curer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• crue, crûe, écru, reçu

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin c?ra.

Noun

cure f (plural curis)

1. treatment
2. cure

Related terms

• curâ

Galician

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of curar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of curar

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

cure f

1. plural of cura

Anagrams

• ecru

Middle English

Noun

cure

1. Alternative form of curre

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French cure.

Noun

cure f (plural cures)

1. desire

Descendants

• French: cure

Old French

Etymology

From Latin c?ra.

Noun

cure f (oblique plural cures, nominative singular cure, nominative plural cures)

1. medical attention
2. worry
3. desire

Related terms

• curer

Descendants

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cure)

Portuguese

Verb

cure

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of curar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of curar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of curar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of curar

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin currere, present active infinitive of curr?, from Proto-Italic *korz?, from Proto-Indo-European *?ers-. Mostly replaced by the modified variant form curge.

Verb

a cure (third-person singular present curge, past participle curs) 3rd conj.

1. (archaic) to run
2. (archaic) to flow
3. (archaic) to drain

Synonyms

• (to run): alerga, fugi
• (to flow): curge
• (to drain): scurge

Related terms

Spanish

Verb

cure

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of curar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of curar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of curar.

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin elixir, from Arabic ????????????? (al-?iks?r), from Ancient Greek ?????? (x?ríon, “medicinal powder”), from ????? (x?rós, “dry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?ks?(?)/, /?-/, /-??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?ks?(?)

Noun

elixir (plural elixirs)

1. (alchemy) A liquid which converts lead to gold.
   • 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, p. 59:

     For Chinese alchemists, gold held the key to the Elixir, the Eastern equivalent of the Philosopher's Stone.

2. (alchemy) A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life.
3. (by extension) The alleged cure for all ailments; cure-all, panacea.
   • 2015, The Boston Globe, Steven Pinker, The moral imperative for bioethics:

     The silver-bullet cancer cures of yesterday’s newsmagazine covers, like interferon and angiogenesis inhibitors, disappointed the breathless expectations, as have elixirs such as antioxidants, Vioxx, and hormone replacement therapy.

4. (pharmacy) A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.
   • 1906, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association (volume 47, pages 872-875)

     The subcommittee's report to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry shows that the action of somnos is practically identical with that of a 5 per cent elixir of hydrated chloral.

Derived terms

• elixir of life

Translations

Asturian

Verb

elixir

1. to choose
2. to elect

Synonyms

• escoyer

Dutch

Etymology

From Medieval Latin elixir, from Arabic ????????????? (al-?iks?r), from Ancient Greek ?????? (x?ríon, “medicinal powder”), from ????? (x?rós, “dry”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e??l?k.s?r/, /?e??l?k.s?r/
• Hyphenation: elixir

Noun

elixir n (plural elixirs, diminutive elixirtje n)

1. Alternative form of elixer

Derived terms

• maagelixir

Galician

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin eligo. Doublet of esleer.

Compare Portuguese eleger and Spanish elegir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?.li.??i?]

Verb

elixir (first-person singular present elixo, first-person singular preterite elixín, past participle elixido)

1. to choose, elect
   • 1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 85:

     para que dos ditos dose omes o dito señor arçobispo o a quel que seu poder para elo touvese tomase et eligise dous deles que os lle aprovuese et os dese por alcalles enna dita çidade en quel anno

     so that of that twelve men said lord archbishop, or anyone who his power has at the momment, takes and chooses two of them, and that he approves and gives them as mayors of said city for that year

   Synonym: escoller

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin elixir, from Arabic ????????????? (al-?iks?r), from Ancient Greek ?????? (x?ríon, “medicinal powder”), from ????? (x?rós, “dry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?.lik.?si?]

Noun

elixir m (plural elixires)

1. elixir

References

• “eligir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “elig” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “elexir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “elixir” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “elixir” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Noun

elixir m (plural elixires)

1. (alchemy) elixir (liquid which was believed to turn non-precious metals to gold)
2. (fiction) a magical potion

Romanian

Etymology

From French élixir

Noun

elixir n (plural elixire)

1. elixir

Declension

Spanish

Noun

elixir m (plural elixires)

1. Alternative spelling of elíxir