medicamentum
Latin
Etymology
From medicārī (“to heal, medicate”) + -mentum (noun suffix).
Noun
medicāmentum n (genitive medicāmentī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| 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.