different between panacea vs infallible

English

Alternative forms

• panacaea
• panacæa

Etymology

From Latin panac?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (panákeia), from ??????? (panak?s, “all-healing”), from ??? (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ???? (ákos, “cure”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: p?n"?-s?'?, IPA^(key): /?pæn.??si?.?/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

panacea (plural panaceas or panaceae or panaceæ)

1. A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.

   Synonym: heal-all

2. Something that will solve all problems.

   A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.

3. (obsolete) The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]

Synonyms

• (remedy to cure all disease): catholicon, cure-all, elixir, wonder drug
• (solution to all problems): miracle, magic bullet, silver bullet
• (plant): allheal, woundwort

Translations

See also

• nostrum

Italian

Etymology

From Latin panac?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (panákeia), from ??????? (panak?s, “all-healing”), from ??? (pân, “all”) + ???? (ákos, “cure”).

Noun

panacea f (plural panacee)

1. panacea, cure-all

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (panákeia) from ??????? (panak?s, “all-healing”), from ??? (pân, “all”) + ???? (ákos, “cure”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.na?ke?.a/, [pänä?ke?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.na?t??e.a/, [p?n??t?????]

Noun

panac?a f (genitive panac?ae); first declension

1. A particular kind of plant, believed to cure all diseases.
2. panacea, catholicon.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• panacinus

Descendants

References

• panacea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• panacea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• panacea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• panacea in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin panac?a, Ancient Greek ???????? (panákeia), from ??????? (panak?s, “all-healing”), from ??? (pân, “all”) + ???? (ákos, “cure”).

Noun

panacea f (plural panaceas)

1. panacea

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin infallibilis, from Latin in- + fallibilis. Compare French infaillible.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?fa.l?.b(?)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?fæ.l?.b?l/

Adjective

infallible (comparative more infallible, superlative most infallible)

1. Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.

   He knows about many things, but even he is not infallible.

2. Certain to produce the intended effect, sure.

   Try this infallible cure for hiccups.

Synonyms

• faultless
• perfect
• indefective

Antonyms

• fallible
• defective
• faultful
• faulty
• imperfect
• error-prone

Related terms

• infallibility
• infallibly

Translations