medicamento

/medikaˈmento/ · B1 · noun · m

medicine

💊 medicamento = medicament: from Latin medicamentum, medicus (doctor) + -mentum

Latin medicari meant to heal, from medicus (doctor), and the suffix -mentum makes it a thing. So it is a healing thing. English kept the same word as medicament, and Spanish adds an -o: medica-mento.

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