panacea Latin · revision 4320

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Virgil|origins=grc πανακής}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [pa.naˈkeː.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [pa.naˈt͡ʃɛː.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''panacēa''' ''f'' (genitive panacēae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|πανάκεια|tr=panákeia|t=cure-all]],^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|πανακής|tr=panakḗs|t=all-healing]], from [[m|grc|πᾶν|tr=pân|t=all]] and [[m|grc|ἄκος|tr=ákos|t=cure]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) The same plant was also called [[panaces|alt=panacēs]] and [[panax]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Virgil, in the Aeneid, has the juices of healing ambrosia and fragrant panacea sprinkled on a wound.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates Virgil 70–19 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a herb believed to heal all diseases, an all-heal, which the OLD equates with ''panacēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucan uses it too, and Pliny the Elder says some call a kind of savory by this name.^(OLD 2012) Personified, Panacea was one of the daughters of Aesculapius, painted with her sisters, as Pliny records.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval British Latin it was a plant, perhaps lovage.^(DMLBS) English ''panacea'' is recorded in the 1540s as a universal remedy.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil names it among healing juices.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of savory and names the goddess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English ''panacea'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An all-healing herb, [[m|en|panacea]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A kind of [[m|en|savory]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(capitalized)'' Panacea, a daughter of Aesculapius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[panacinus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|panacea]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}