English → Latin
“remedy” in Latin
remediumremedy, cure; medicine; aid, assistancemedicīnusOf or pertaining to doctors and healing; medical, medicinalmedicāmentumdrug, remedy, medicineantidotuma remedy against poison; an antidoteauxiliumhelp, aid, assistance, relief; antidote, remedyreperiōto find, find out, learn, realise, ascertain, discover, inventsānōto heal, cure; to restore, repair, correctprōsumto be useful or of use, do good, help, benefit, profit; to serve; to be good or beneficial
The English word remedy itself goes back to Latin medeor, through remedium.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
remedy s.
remedium (PROP. and figuratively): medicina (PROP. and figuratively): medicamentum (PROP.): antidotum (an antidote). To apply a remedy to a disease, morbo medicinam adhibere: to seek a remedy for anything, medicinam alicui rei quaerere (PROP. and figuratively): to find a remedy, auxilium (or medicinam) reperire, or remedium invenire, alicui rei; res adversus aliquid praesenti remedio est (is a quick remedy); si periturus sit, quil aborat, nisi temeraria quoque via fuerit adjutus... satius est anceps auxilium experiri quam nullum (Cels., 2, 10; desperate remedies must be tried in desperate cases).
remedy v.
mederi alicui or alicui rei (PROP. and figuratively): sanare, or sanum facere aliquem or aliquid (to make a person or thing sound or whole, PROP. and figuratively) [Vid: also, CURE, v.] : remedio esse, anything, ad aliquid (to serve as means against anything; of medicine): utilem esse, anything, contra aliquid, alicui rei (to be useful or serviceable; of medicine and other things): prodesse, anything, adversus aliquid, alicui rei (to be good for anything; of medicine and other things): salutarem esse, anything, ad aliquid (to be wholesome; of medicines and other things): posse ad aliquid (to operate in or against anything; e.g., ad morsus serpentum): valere adversus aliquid, efficacem esse contra aliquid (to be good or effectual against anything): to remedy a want of provisions, rei frumentariae mederi; rem frumentariam expedire. To remedy quickly and effectually (of a medicine), res adversus aliquid praesenti remedio est. To discover how to remedy a thing, auxilium reperire or remedium invenire alicui rei: that cannot be remedied, insanabilis (☞ immedicabilis is poetical).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for remedy?
- The usual Latin words for “remedy” are remedium, medicīnus, medicāmentum; also antidotum, auxilium, reperiō. 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.