medicamentum

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

medicāmentum n (genitive medicāmentī); second declension

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

English: medicament
French: médicament
Italian: medicamento
Portuguese: medicamento
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

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