medicament

noun

(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Roots

medicusmedic- · Latin · physician, healing mentum-ament · Latin · result/means of an action

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The word medicament breaks down into 2 roots of Latin origin: medic, from Latin medicus (“physician, healing”); and -ament, from Latin mentum (“result/means of an action”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.