medicamentum

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

medicāmentum n (genitive medicāmentī); second declension

1. drug, remedy, medicine

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	medicāmentum	medicāmenta
genitive	medicāmentī	medicāmentōrum
dative	medicāmentō	medicāmentīs
accusative	medicāmentum	medicāmenta
ablative	medicāmentō	medicāmentīs
vocative	medicāmentum	medicāmenta

Descendants

• French: médicament
• Spanish: medicamento

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