Where does “medication” come from?
Medication comes from Middle French médication, from Latin medicatio (the act of healing), derived from medicus (physician, healer) with the agent suffix -tio, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European med- (to measure, consider).
medication (English): A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken...
Definitions
- A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken...
Ancestry of “medication”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | médication | — |
| 2 | Latin | medicatio | healing, cure, medication |
| 3 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 4 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 5 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 6 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 8 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 9 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |