LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · femininethird declension

medicātiō

medicātiō f (genitive medicātiōnis)
Classical[mɛ.dɪˈkaː.ti.oː]Ecclesiastical[me.diˈkat.t͡si.o]

Meaning

  1. healing, cure, medication

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativemedicātiōmedicātiōnēs
genitivemedicātiōnismedicātiōnum
dativemedicātiōnīmedicātiōnibus
accusativemedicātiōnemmedicātiōnēs
ablativemedicātiōnemedicātiōnibus
vocativemedicātiōmedicātiōnēs

mĕdĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. id., lit.,
I. a healing, cure; hence, in agriculture, a besprinkling with vegetable juices, e. g., of lentils, to preserve them from the corn-worm, Col. 2, 10, 16.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin medicātiō From medicō + -tiō.

Descendants
  • Catalanmedicació
  • Englishmedication
  • Frenchmédication
  • Italianmedicazione
  • Portuguesemedicação
  • Romanianmedicație
  • Spanishmedicación
  • Galicianmedicación

In English words that came into English from medicātiō

  • medicationmedicātiō

Quick answers

What does medicātiō mean in Latin?
medicātiō, a noun, means “healing, cure, medication”.
What is the genitive of medicātiō?
The genitive singular is medicātiōnis. medicātiō is feminine, third declension.
How do you pronounce medicātiō?
In classical Latin, [mɛ.dɪˈkaː.ti.oː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [me.diˈkat.t͡si.o].