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.

Case	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.