medicamen

Latin

Etymology

From medicō (“I cure”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkaː.men/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkäːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈka.men/, [med̪iˈkäːmen]

Noun

medicāmen n (genitive medicāminis); third declension

1. drug, remedy, medicine, medication
2. antidote
3. cosmetic, makeup

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	medicāmen	medicāmina
Genitive	medicāminis	medicāminum
Dative	medicāminī	medicāminibus
Accusative	medicāmen	medicāmina
Ablative	medicāmine	medicāminibus
Vocative	medicāmen	medicāmina

Descendants

• Spanish: vedegambre

References

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