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English
Etymology
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛmədi/
- Hyphenation: rem‧e‧dy
Noun
remedy (plural remedies)
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
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something that corrects or counteracts medicine, application, or treatment
- Arabic: تِرْيَاق (ar) m (tiryāq)
- Moroccan Arabic: دْوا m (dwa)
- Asturian: remediu m
- Azerbaijani: əlac (az), dərman (az), müalicə (az)
- Bashkir: дауа (dawa)
- Bengali: দাওয়াই (bn) (daōẇai), এলাজ (bn) (elaj)
- Bulgarian: лекарство (bg) n (lekarstvo)
- Catalan: remei (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 治療 / 治疗 (zh) (zhìliáo), 療法 / 疗法 (zh) (liáofǎ)
- Czech: lék (cs) m, léčba (cs) f
- Dutch: remedie (nl) f or n
- Finnish: lääke (fi), parannuskeino, hoito (fi)
- French: remède (fr) m
- Galician: remedio (gl) m
- German: Heilmittel (de) n
- Greek: γιατρικό (el) n (giatrikó)
- Ancient Greek: ἴαμα n (íama), ἴασις f (íasis), ἄκος n (ákos)
- Haitian Creole: remèd
- Hebrew: מָזוֹר (he) m (mazór)
- Hindi: औषध (hi) f (auṣadh), उपचार (hi) m (upcār)
- Hungarian: orvosság (hu)
- Italian: rimedio (it) m, medicamento (it) m
- Japanese: 療法 (ja) (りょうほう, ryōhō)
- Kankanaey: limidyo
- Kapampangan: kapaldanan, kepaldanan
- Kazakh: дауа (dawa), дәрі (däri)
- Korean: 요약(療藥) (ko) (yoyak)
- Latin: remedium (la) n
- Malay: pengubat, rawatan (ms)
- Māori: rongoā
- Norman: r'miède f
- Occitan: remèdi (oc) m
- Old English: lācnung f
- Persian: درمان (fa) (darmân)
- Polish: lekarstwo (pl) n, lek (pl) m
- Portuguese: remédio (pt) m
- Romanian: remediu (ro) n
- Russian: лека́рство (ru) n (lekárstvo), (лека́рственное) сре́дство (ru) n (srédstvo)
- Sanskrit: भेषज (sa) n (bheṣaja)
- Scottish Gaelic: leigheas m, cungaidh f, ìoc m
- Sindhi: عِلاجُ m (ʻilāju)
- Spanish: remedio (es) m, mentolato m (Latin America), mentolátum m (Latin America)
- Swedish: botemedel (sv) n
- Tagalog: gamot (tl), medisina, remedyo
- Tarifit: asafar m
- Tocharian B: sāṃtke
- Turkish: tıp (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: علاج (ʿilac), چاره (çare), درمان (derman)
- Walloon: riméde (wa) m
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Verb
remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)
- (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 27:Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
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To provide or serve as a remedy for Related terms
Further reading
- “remedy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “remedy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “remedy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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