different between placebo vs therapeutically

English

Etymology

From Middle English placebo, from Latin plac?b? (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of place? (“I please”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl??si?.b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pl??si.bo?/
• Rhymes: -i?b??

Noun

placebo (plural placebos or placeboes)

1. (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. [from 18th c.]
   • 2010, Edzard Ernst, The Guardian, 22 Feb 2010:

     The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.
2. (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead. [from 13th c.]
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 349:

     There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• drug
• nocebo

Anagrams

• Obecalp

Czech

Noun

placebo n

1. placebo (dummy medicine containing no active ingredients)

Further reading

• placebo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plac?b?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pla??se?.bo?/
• Hyphenation: pla?ce?bo

Noun

placebo m (plural placebo's)

1. placebo
2. (obsolete) sycophant

Derived terms

• het placebo zingen
• placebo spelen

Esperanto

Etymology

Derived from Latin plac?b? (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of place? (“I please”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?t?sebo/
• Hyphenation: pla?ce?bo
• Rhymes: -ebo

Noun

placebo (accusative singular placebon, plural placeboj, accusative plural placebojn)

1. (medicine) placebo, dummy drug

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plac?b?.

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

1. placebo

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

placebo (plural placebos)

1. placebo

Italian

Etymology

From Latin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?t???.bo/
• Rhymes: -?bo

Noun

placebo m (invariable)

1. (pharmacology, figuratively) placebo

Derived terms

• effetto placebo

Latin

Verb

plac?b?

1. first-person singular future active indicative of place?

References

• placebo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plac?bo, the first-person singular future active indicative of place?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla??s??b??/

Noun

placebo (plural placeboes)

1. (Christianity) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.

2. Talk for buttering someone up, making them sycophantic or pleasing them.
3. A representation or exemplar of adulation or sycophancy.

Descendants

• English: placebo

References

• “pl?c?bo, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-07.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin plac?bo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?t?s?.b?/

Noun

placebo n (indeclinable)

1. (medicine) placebo

Further reading

• placebo in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• placebo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.?se.bu/
• Hyphenation: pla?ce?bo

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

1. (medicine) placebo (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients)

Romanian

Etymology

From French placebo

Noun

placebo n (uncountable)

1. placebo

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From medical New Latin plac?b?, from Latin plac?b? (literally “I will please”).

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

1. placebo

English

Etymology

therapeutic +? -ally

Adverb

therapeutically (comparative more therapeutically, superlative most therapeutically)

1. In a therapeutic manner.

   This drug cannot be used therapeutically except as a placebo.

Derived terms