remedy
pronunciation
How to pronounce remedy in British English:
UK [ˈremədi]
How to pronounce remedy in American English:
US [ˈremədi]
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- Noun:
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
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- Verb:
- set straight or right
- provide relief for
Word Origin
- remedy
- remedy: [13] Remedy is closely related to medicine. It comes via Anglo-Norman remedie from Latin remedium ‘medicine’ a noun formed from the same stem, med-, as produced medērī ‘heal’ (source of English medical, medicine, etc). The extension in meaning from ‘medicine’ to ‘something that corrects a wrong’ took place in Latin.=> medicine
- remedy (n.)
- c. 1200, "cure for a disease or disorder; means of counteracting an evil," from Anglo-French remedie, Old French remede "remedy, cure" (12c., Modern French remède) and directly from Latin remedium "a cure, remedy, medicine, antidote, that which restores health," from re-, intensive prefix (or perhaps literally, "again;" see re-), + mederi "to heal" (see medical (adj.)). Figurative use from c. 1300.
- remedy (v.)
- c. 1400, from Old French remedier or directly from Latin remediare, from remedium (see remedy (n.)). Related: Remedied; remedying.
Example
- 1. The only remedy is to manage secrets better .
- 2. One group gets the remedy , another does not .
- 3. The religion and belief regulations were meant to remedy this .
- 4. There is a small industry churning out suggestions for how to remedy this .
- 5. Dr shaw proposes to remedy that .