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medicine
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)
- A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.
- 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 […]
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Innovation
- The study of the cause, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease or illness.
- The profession of physicians, surgeons and related specialisms; those who practice medicine.
- Ritual magic used, as by a medicine man, to promote a desired outcome in healing, hunting, warfare etc.
- 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.
- (obsolete) Black magic, superstition.
- (obsolete) A philter or love potion.
- (obsolete) A physician.
- (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)
- (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
- 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)
- medicine (act of practising medical treatment)
Descendants
- French: médecine
Spanish
Verb
medicine
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of medicinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of medicinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of medicinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of medicinar.
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armamentarium
English
Etymology
From Latin arm?mentum (“arsenal”), from arm?menta (“tools”).
Noun
armamentarium (plural armamentariums or armamentaria)
- All of the equipment available for carrying out a task, especially all the equipment used by a physician in the practice of medicine.
- 2010, Timothy J. Nelson et al., "Induced pluripotent stem cells: advances to applications," Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications, Dove Press, no. 3, p. 29:
- Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology has enriched the armamentarium of regenerative medicine by introducing autologous pluripotent progenitor pools bioengineered from ordinary somatic tissue.
- 2010, Timothy J. Nelson et al., "Induced pluripotent stem cells: advances to applications," Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications, Dove Press, no. 3, p. 29:
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From arm?menta (“tools, equipment, rigging”) +? -?rium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ar.ma?.men?ta?.ri.um/, [ärmä?m?n??t?ä??i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ar.ma.men?ta.ri.um/, [?rm?m?n??t????ium]
Noun
arm?ment?rium n (genitive arm?ment?ri? or arm?ment?r?); second declension
- arsenal
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- armamentarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- armamentarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- armamentarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- armamentarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- armamentarium in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- armamentarium in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- armamentarium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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