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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

Clippings.

Adjective

med (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of medical.

   I'm in med school.

Noun

med (plural meds)

1. (informal, chiefly in the plural) Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.

   He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.

Etymology 2

Verb

med

1. (Britain, dialect) may; might
   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

     You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.

Anagrams

• D. Me., DEM, DME, Dem, Dem., EDM, Edm, dem, dem.

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech med, from Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?t]
• Hyphenation: med
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: met

Noun

med m inan

1. honey (thick, viscous, sweet liquid made by bees)

   Synonym: (literary) strdí

Declension

Derived terms

• mazat n?komu med kolem huby
• medov?
• medovina
• medový
• nebýt žádný med

Related terms

• medv?d m

Further reading

• med in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• med in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d/, [m?ð]

Preposition

med

1. with
2. by
3. including, counting

References

• “med,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

Etymology 2

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“meadow”)

Etymology 3

Noun

med

1. Alternative form of mede (“reward”)

Etymology 4

Preposition

med

1. Alternative spelling of mid

Adjective

med

1. Alternative spelling of mid

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse með (“with, along with”), from Proto-Germanic *midi (“with, by, through; along, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *meth?, from *me (“in the middle of, near, by, around, with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/

Preposition

med

1. with
2. by

   med båt / tog - by boat / train

3. of

   fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

• “med” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?/
• Homophone: me

Preposition

med

1. with (in the company of)

2. by

   med båt / tog - by boat / train

3. of

   fat med olje - barrel of oil

Derived terms

References

• “med” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Noun

med m

1. honey

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: med

Further reading

• “med”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mi?du, from Proto-Germanic *mizd?, from Proto-Indo-European *misd?ós. Cognate with Old Frisian mede, Old Saxon meda, Old High German miata (German Miete (“rent”)); and with Ancient Greek ?????? (misthós, “reward”), archaic Russian ???? (mzda, “payment, bribe”), and Slovak mzda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?d/

Noun

m?d f

1. reward

Declension

Descendants

• English: meed

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *med?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/

Noun

med m (genitive medai)

1. honey

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u. Cognate with English mead, German Met, Ancient Greek ???? (méthu, “wine”) (whence English methylene, methane, Greek ???? (méthi, “drunkness”)), Hindi ??? (madhu, “honey”) or Urdu ????? (“honey”), Persian ??? (“wine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mê?d/

Noun

m?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. honey

Declension

Etymology 2

Variant of me?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d/

Preposition

med (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) between
2. (Kajkavian) among

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?t/

Noun

med m (genitive singular medu, nominative plural medy, genitive plural medov, declension pattern of dub)

1. honey (the sweet liquid made by bees)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• med in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *me?u, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/

Preposition

med

1. (with instrumental) between (stationary)
2. (with accusative) between (motion towards)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?t/

Noun

m??d m inan

1. honey

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Proto-Slavic *m?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé?t/

Noun

m??d f

1. brass

Inflection

Further reading

• “med”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?(d)/, /m??(d)/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish mædh, from Old Norse með, from Proto-Germanic *midi.

Adverb

med

1. also, as well, too

Derived terms

• See preposition, below

Synonyms

• också

Preposition

med

1. with, together with, in the company of

2. including, containing, with; in addition to

3. by, with; by means of

4. at, in, on, with (expressing manner)

5. to (in the expression "lika med" = "equal to")

Antonyms

• mot
• utan

Derived terms

Related terms

• genom
• medelst

Etymology 2

From Old Norse meiðr.

Noun

med c

1. a runner (device upon which something slides)
2. a rocker (a device upon which something rocks)

Declension

Alternative forms

• mede

Synonyms

• glidskena
• skridskoskena

Derived terms

• kälkmed
• meddon
• medspår
• slädmed
• sparkmed

References

• med in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• dem

English

Alternative forms

• medicin (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English medicin, borrowed from Middle French medicine, from Old French medecine, from Latin medic?na (“the healing art, medicine, a physician's shop, a remedy, medicine”), feminine of medic?nus (“of or belonging to physic or surgery, or to a physician or surgeon”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”).

The extended sense of "Indigenous magic" is a calque of Ojibwe mashkiki (“medicine”) or mide (or cognates in related languages) when used in compounds such as Grand Medicine Society, medicine lodge, medicine dance, medicine bag, medicine wheel, medicine man, Medicine Line, and bad medicine or place names such as Medicine Hat, Medicine Creek, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ?med-s?n, ?med-sn, IPA^(key): /?med(?).s?n/, /?med(?).sn?/
• (US) enPR: ?med-?-s?n, IPA^(key): /?m?.d?.s?n/
  • (Weak-vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?m?.d?.s?n/

Noun

medicine (countable and uncountable, plural medicines)

1. A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.
2. A treatment or cure.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Innovation

     Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils […]

3. The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.

4. The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.
5. Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.
6. Among the Native Americans, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing.
7. (obsolete) Black magic, superstition.
8. (obsolete) A philter or love potion.
9. (obsolete) A physician.
10. (slang) Recreational drugs, especially alcoholic drinks.

Synonyms

• (substance): drug, prescription, pharmaceutical, elixir
• (treatment): regimen, course, program, prescription
• See also Thesaurus:medicine
• See also Thesaurus:pharmaceutical

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

medicine (third-person singular simple present medicines, present participle medicining, simple past and past participle medicined)

1. (rare, obsolete) To treat with medicine.

See also

• therapy
• panacea

References

• Prescription Desk Reference, Prescription Drug Information:
• “medicine” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "medicine" in the Merriam-Webster On-line dictionary
• "medicine" in the Hutchinson Encyclopaedia, Helicon Publishing LTD 2007.
• medicine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• medicine at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Noun

medicine f

1. plural of medicina

Anagrams

• endemici

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French medecine, with the i added back to reflect the original Latin medic?na.

Noun

medicine f (plural medicines)

1. medicine (act of practising medical treatment)

Descendants

• French: médecine

Spanish

Verb

medicine

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