medicor Latin · revision 9406

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''medicor''' (present infinitive medicārī, perfect active medicātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the deponent form of [[medicō]] “to heal”, from [[medicus]] “physician”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) ⟨Medicus⟩ is from [[medeor]] “to heal”, which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*med-|t=to measure]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short cite Plautus' ''Mostellāria'' and Terence for the figurative sense “to relieve”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to heal, cure, treat, with the dative as in Virgil's ''senibus medicantur anhēlīs'' “they treat breathless old men”, or with the accusative, of curing a wound.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In early Latin it meant figuratively to relieve, as when Plautus says ''istum medicābor metum'' “I will cure that fear”, and Lewis & Short note that the literal sense is poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Etymonline derives [[en|medication]] from the participle stem of ''medicārī''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it figuratively.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of relieving someone.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of treating the sick.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|heal]], [[m|en|cure]], treat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (figurative) To relieve.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[medicō]]

+ * [[medicus]]

+ * [[medeor]]

+ * [[medicātiō]]

+ * [[en|medication]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}