medeor

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *medēōr, from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”), with semantic shift "measure" > "distribute (a cure)" > "heal".^[1] Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬍-𐬨𐬀𐬛 (vī-mad), Old Persian [script needed] (azdā), Old Armenian միտ (mit), Old Irish midiur, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (mitaþs), Ancient Greek μέδομαι (médomai), German Maut.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈme.de.or/, [ˈmɛd̪eɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈme.de.or/, [ˈmɛːd̪eor]

Verb

medeor (present infinitive medērī); second conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems

1. (with dative case) to heal, cure, remedy, be good for or against a disease

   Synonym: sānō

2. (figuratively) to amend, correct, relieve

   Synonyms: corrigō, reficiō, reparō, ēmendō

Conjugation

• Second conjugation, but with no perfect conjugation or future participle and infinitive.

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	medeor		medēris, medēre		medētur		medēmur		medēminī		medentur
	imperfect	medēbar		medēbāris, medēbāre		medēbātur		medēbāmur		medēbāminī		medēbantur
	future	medēbor		medēberis, medēbere		medēbitur		medēbimur		medēbiminī		medēbuntur
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	medear		medeāris, medeāre		medeātur		medeāmur		medeāminī		medeantur
	imperfect	medērer		medērēris, medērēre		medērētur		medērēmur		medērēminī		medērentur
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		medēre		—		—		medēminī		—
	future	—		medētor		medētor		—		—		medentor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		medērī			—			medēns			—
future		—			—			—			medendus
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		medendī		medendō		medendum		medendō		—		—

   Conjugation of medeor (second conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems)

Derived terms

• medella
• medicus
• meditor
• remedium

Related terms

• medica
• medicābilis
• medicābulum
• medicāmen
• medicāmentārius
• medicāmentōsus
• medicāmentum
• medicātiō
• medicātor
• medicātus
• medicīna
• medicīnālis
• medicīnus
• medicō
• medicor
• medicōsus

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “medeor”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 368

Further reading

• “medeor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “medeor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medeor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to relieve a difficulty: incommodis mederi