different between remedy vs medicinal

English

Etymology

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m?di/
• Hyphenation: rem?e?dy

Noun

remedy (plural remedies)

1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

4. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Synonyms

• (Scottish contexts): remeid

Derived terms

• home remedy
• remediless

Translations

Verb

remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)

1. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.

     Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,

Synonyms

• redress
• help
• correct
• cure
• See also Thesaurus:repair

Translations

Related terms

• remediable
• remedial

Further reading

• remedy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• remedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• remedy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Latin medic?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??d?s?n?l/, /m??d?sn?l/, /m??d?s?n?l/

Adjective

medicinal (not comparable)

1. Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
2. Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain.
3. Tasting like medicine; particularly of unpleasant or artificial sweet or bitter flavours similar to cherry, almond or licorice.

Derived terms

• medicinally

Related terms

• medicine

Translations

See also

• salutary

Noun

medicinal (plural medicinals)

1. Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.

Translations

Anagrams

• adminicle, miniclade

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin medic?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m?.di.si?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me.di.si?nal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

medicinal (masculine and feminine plural medicinals)

1. medicinal

Related terms

• medicina

Further reading

• “medicinal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “medicinal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “medicinal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “medicinal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin medic?n?lis.

Adjective

medicinal m or f (plural medicinais)

1. medicinal

Related terms

• medicina

Further reading

• “medicinal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Romanian

Etymology

From French médicinal, from Latin medicinalis.

Adjective

medicinal m or n (feminine singular medicinal?, masculine plural medicinali, feminine and neuter plural medicinale)

1. medicinal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin medic?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /medi?i?nal/, [me.ð?i.?i?nal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /medisi?nal/, [me.ð?i.si?nal]

Adjective

medicinal (plural medicinales)

1. medicinal

Related terms

• medicina

Further reading

• “medicinal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.