remediatio

Forms

remediātiō f (genitive remediātiōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin remediō (“to cure”) + -tiō.^[1][2]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its only classical use is in Scribonius Largus' book of remedies, where the numbness of the part on which black electric rays have been laid is “a sign of the cure”.^[2][1][3]

Semantic evolution

Marcellus Empiricus copied the passage of Scribonius.^[2][4] In British Medieval Latin it meant a remedy.^[5]

Timeline

• c. 47 AD – Scribonius Largus uses it for the process of healing.^[2][6]
• 5th century AD – Marcellus Empiricus repeats Scribonius' passage.^[2][4]

Meanings

Noun

1. The process of healing, curing.^[1][3]
2. (Medieval Latin) A remedy.^[5]

Related words

• remedium

Usage notes

In the passage of Scribonius, earlier editions printed cūrātiō instead.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b c d e f Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ a b Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ a b Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
6. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de