English → Latin
“cure” in Latin
cūrātiōtreatment, care, operation (medical, surgical); administration, office (public)sānātiōa healing, curingmedicīnusOf or pertaining to doctors and healing; medical, medicinalmalusunpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad; unpleasant to the senses, sight, smell, taste, touch; bad, evil, wicked, msānōto heal, cure; to restore, repair, correctsaliōto leap, jump, bound; to spring forth, flow down; to mount for sex
The English word cure itself goes back to Latin cūra, through curo.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cure s.
Of a disease, curatio (cura never occurs in Cic., and but seldom in Cels.): sanatio (act of healing, Cic., PROP., and figuratively; e.g., malorum): medendi facultas (the means of curing anything): medicina (the remedy as prepared for anything, alicujus rei). A certain cure for anything, sanatio certa et propria alicujus rei (e.g., perturbationis animi, Cic.) a dangerous method of curing, curatio periculosa et anceps: to employ a method of cure, curationem adhibere morbo (in an illness); curationem admovere ad aliquem (to apply it to anybody): this method of cure may be adopted in the case of young people, and whenever the evil is not of a serious nature, hanc curationem puerilis aetas et modicum malum recipit. A cure for evils, sanatio malorum (Cic.): to follow a prescribed method of cure, curationem recipere: to undertake anybody’s cure, curationem suscipere: the method of cure promises to be successful, bene procedit curatio: to be called on to undertake the cure of a disease, ad curationem alicujus morbi adhiberi: method of cure, curandi ratio, via: curatio: medendi ratio: without a cure, insanabilis: qui etc. sanari non potest: anything is without a cure, non est in aliqua re medicinae faciendae locus: anything is the only cure for anything, alicujus rei in una aliqua re posita sanatio est: to attempt anybody’s cure by a different mode of treatment, aliam quandam curationem adhibere ad aliquem: to look about for a cure, medicinam alicui rei quaerere (PROP. and figuratively, )
CURE OF SOULS, *cura animarum. Livings with cure of souls, *beneficia, quibus animarum cura subest (Cone. Trid., Sess.24, c. 12): *beneficia curam animarum habentia (ib.): livings without cure of souls, *beneficia, quibus animarum cura nulla subest (ib.): one who has a cure of souls, *qui animos regit or moderatur: *animarum servator (not pastor): *qui beneficium obtinet, cui animarum cura subest (after Cone. Trid.).
cure v.
sanare: sanum facere aliquem or aliquid: sanitatem alicui restituere (to cure anybody, or a disease, a wound, etc., ): mederi alicui or alicui rei (to assist or help anybody by remedies; all three as well of the physician as of the medicines or remedy, and also IMPROP., for “to restore to a former healthy state or condition’): curare aliquem or aliquid (to bestow the necessary attention and care on a person or disease = “treat anybody” or “anything,” but never in the sense of “effectually curing”). ☞ Medicari or medicare does not belong to classical prose. To cure anything effectually or radically, aliquid persanare or percurare (post-Augustan): to cure anybody perfectly, veram sanitatem alicui reddere: to cure one’s self by anything, mederi sibi aliqua re (e.g., cancros edendo) to be cured of a disease, sanum fieri ex morbo: to cure anybody mentally, sanare aliquem or alicujus animum; aliquem ad sanitatem reducere, or perducere, or revocare: sanitatem alicujus animo afferre: to be cured mentally, ad sanitatem reverti, or redire, or se convertere: what cannot be cured, insanabilis (☞ immedicabilis is poetical).
To preserve, sale indurare: sale condire: sale macerare: salire: sale conspergere: salem aspergere alicui rei (to strew salt over or on anything, to salt it): sale obruere (to put a great deal of salt on anything): Cured meat, caro sale indurata: the curing of meat, fish, etc., salsura.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cure?
- The usual Latin words for “cure” are cūrātiō, sānātiō, medicīnus; also malus, sānō, saliō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.