laxatif
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin laxativus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lak.sa.tif/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -if
Antonyms
See also
Further reading
- “laxatif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Adjective
laxatif m (oblique and nominative feminine singular laxative)
- (medicine) laxative
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 205 of this essay:
- il ne prendra point de medecine laxative
- he will not take any laxative medicine
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