medicatio

Latin

Etymology

From medicō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkaː.ti.oː/, [mɛd̪ɪˈkäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.diˈkat.t͡si.o/, [med̪iˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

medicātiō f (genitive medicātiōnis); third declension

1. healing, cure, medication

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	medicātiō	medicātiōnēs
genitive	medicātiōnis	medicātiōnum
dative	medicātiōnī	medicātiōnibus
accusative	medicātiōnem	medicātiōnēs
ablative	medicātiōne	medicātiōnibus
vocative	medicātiō	medicātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: medicació
• English: medication
• French: médication
• Galician: medicación
• Italian: medicazione
• Portuguese: medicação
• Romanian: medicație
• Spanish: medicación

References

• “medicatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• medicatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.