medicatus Latin · revision 34563

+ {{homograph|1|medicinal}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=la medeor}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''medicātus''' (feminine medicāta, neuter medicātum, comparative medicātior, superlative medicātissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The adjective is [[der|la|medicō|t=to heal; to treat with a drug]]: its perfect passive participle, used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) That verb is formed from [[m|la|medicus|t=doctor]],^(OLD 2012) which de Vaan derives from [[m|la|medeor|t=to heal]]; he explains its meaning by a shift from [[ine-pro|*med-|t=to measure]] to dispensing a cure.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation in the OLD is from Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', of a wand imbued with magic, ''medicāta … virga'', soothing drowsy eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Köbler dates it from Celsus,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of springs with healing properties, ''in medicātīs fontibus''.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it means having healing powers: Seneca uses it of waters and springs, Quintus Curtius of a healing draught, and Pliny the Younger of the mineral taste of water.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Pliny the Elder has a comparative for cow's milk and a superlative for the most medicinal things.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ The sense imbued with magic or other potent substances goes on in Lucan, of a charmed fire around a camp, and in Silius Italicus, of drugged poppies.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a magic wand.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of healing springs.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 39–65 AD – Lucan uses it of a charmed fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses its comparative and superlative.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Having [[m|en|medicinal]] properties, healing.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Imbued with [[m|en|magic]] or other potent substances; drugged.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ {{homograph|2|magic charm}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=la medeor}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''medicātus''' ''m'' (genitive medicātūs); fourth declension^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The noun is [[af|la|medicō|-tus|t1=to heal; to drug]], an action noun of the fourth declension;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Georges and Lewis and Short derive it from the deponent [[m|la|medicor|t=to heal]].^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found only in Ovid's ''Heroides'',^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) in a letter the TLL assigns to Medea: ''quaeque ferōs pepulī doctīs medicātibus ignēs, nōn valeō flammās effugere ipsa meās'', “I who drove back fierce fires with skilled charms cannot escape my own flames”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The dictionaries read the single passage differently: the OLD as the application of drugs, the TLL as an act of medicating or an incantation, Lewis and Short and Georges as a charm, Conte as a magic potion and Gaffiot as a magic preparation.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of magic charms against fire.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The application of [[m|en|drug|alt=drugs]]; a magic [[m|en|charm]] or potion.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[medicō]]

+ * [[medicor]]

+ * [[medicāmentum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}