English
medicinal
Medicinal comes from Latin medicīnālis ‘medical, medicinal, of or pertaining to medicine’, from medicus ‘doctor, physician’, and ultimately from medeor ‘to heal, cure, remedy, be good for or against…’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedeor‘to heal, cure, remedy, be good for or against a disease’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicus‘doctor, physician’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicīnus‘medical’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicīna‘art of medicine’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicīnālis‘medical, medicinal, of or pertaining to medicine’
- Englishearliest quotation 2017medicinal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedeor‘to heal, cure, remedy, be good for or against a disease’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicus‘doctor, physician’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicīnus‘medical’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicīna‘art of medicine’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmedicīnālis‘medical, medicinal, of or pertaining to medicine’
- Englishearliest quotation 2017medicinal
Earliest quotation: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction): “Though not poisonous, this mildly psychoactive mushroom has valuable…”
Equivalent to medicine + -al
Latin medeor ‘heal’
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Latin medicīna ‘the healing art’
Old French medecine ‘medicine’
Middle French medicine
Middle English medicin
English medicine
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *med- ‘to measure, give advice, heal’
must, model, modern, mode, mood, mud, module, mold, meditation, blackmail, modal, modus, modulate, mote, mete, moulder, modifiable, 32 more
through Proto-Italic *medos ‘measure’
commodity, modification, mould, modulation, molding, modulus, modicum, modulo, 14 more
through Latin medeor ‘to heal, cure, remedy, be good for or against…’
through Latin medicus ‘doctor, physician’
medication, meth, med, 11 more
Today it means
adj Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin medeor / medicinal