remedy

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Etymology

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

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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.

Derived terms

• remediless

Translations

something that corrects or counteracts

• Arabic: علاج (ar) (ʿilāj) m
• Catalan: remei (ca) m
• Dutch: remedie (nl) f and n
• Finnish: lääke (fi), parannuskeino (fi)
• French: remède (fr) m
• German: Gegenmittel (de) n
• Hungarian: orvosság (hu), ellenszer (hu)
• Italian: rimedio (it) m

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چاره‌سه‌ر (ku)

• Persian: چاره (fa) (čāra(e))
• Portuguese: remédio (pt) m, correção (pt) f
• Russian: средство (ru) (srédstvo) n
• Scottish Gaelic: leasachadh (gd) m
• Sindhi: ُتَدارُڪ (sd) m

legal means

• Catalan: correcció (ca) f, correctiu (ca) m
• Finnish: muutoksenhakukeino (fi)
• French: recours (fr) m
• Hungarian: jogorvoslat (hu)

• Italian: azione giudiziaria (it)
• Russian: мера (ru) (méra) f, средство (ru) (srédstvo) n (суде́бной защи́ты)
• Sindhi: ُتَدارُڪ (sd) m

medicine, application, or treatment

• Azeri: tibb (az)
• Catalan: remei (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 醫藥 (cmn), 医药 (cmn) (yīyào)

• Dutch: remedie (nl) f and n
• Finnish: lääke (fi), parannuskeino (fi), hoito (fi)
• French: remède (fr) m
• German: Heilmittel (de) n
• Greek: γιατρικό (el) (giatrikó) n
• Haitian Creole: remèd
• Hungarian: orvosság (hu)
• Italian: rimedio (it) m, medicamento (it) m

• Japanese: 医学 (ja) (igaku)
• Jèrriais: r'miède f
• Persian: درمان (fa) (darmān)
• Polish: lekarstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: remédio (pt) m
• Russian: лекарство (ru) (lekárstvo) n, (лека́рственное) средство (ru) (srédstvo) n
• Scottish Gaelic: leigheas (gd) m, cungaidh (gd) f, ìoc (gd) m
• Sindhi: عِلاجُ (sd) m
• Spanish: remedio (es) m
• Tagalog: gamot (tl), paggamot (tl)
• Turkish: tıp (tr)

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 Wikisaurus:repair

Translations

To provide or serve as a remedy for

• Catalan: remeiar (ca)
• Danish: afhjælpe (da)
• Finnish: parantaa (fi), korjata (fi)
• French: remédier (fr) (à)
• Greek: γιατρεύω (el) (giatrévo)

• Hungarian: orvosol (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چاره‌سه‌رکردن

• Latin: emendo (la), medeor (la)
• Portuguese: remediar (pt)
• Swedish: lätta (sv)

Related terms

• remediable
• remedial

External links

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