medicamentum

Latin

Etymology

From medicārī (“to heal, medicate”) +‎ -mentum (noun suffix).

Noun

medicāmentum n (genitive medicāmentī); second declension

drug, remedy, medicine

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	medicāmentum	medicāmenta
Genitive	medicāmentī	medicāmentōrum
Dative	medicāmentō	medicāmentīs
Accusative	medicāmentum	medicāmenta
Ablative	medicāmentō	medicāmentīs
Vocative	medicāmentum	medicāmenta

Descendants

Inherited:
- Catalan: metjament
- Old French: megement
Borrowed:
- → Catalan: medicament
- → English: medicament
- → French: médicament
- → Galician: medicamento
- → Italian: medicamento
- → Portuguese: medicamento
- → Romanian: medicament
- → Spanish: medicamento
- → Swedish: medikament

References

“medicamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“medicamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
medicamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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