medicamentum

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

medicāmentum n (genitive medicāmentī); second declension

1. 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.