remedio

See also: remédio and remedió

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈmedjo/, [reˈme.ð̞jo]

Verb

remedio

1. first-person singular present indicative of remediar

Galician

Alternative forms

• remédio (reintegrationist)
• romedio

Etymology

Attested since the 14th century. Learned borrowing from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + medeor (“I heal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈmɛdjo/ [reˈmɛ.ð̞jʊ]
• Rhymes: -ɛdjo
• Hyphenation: re‧me‧dio

Noun

remedio m (plural remedios)

1. remedy, solution
   • 1326, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 398:

     Sabeam todos, que por quanto a nos dom frey Beringel da Ordem dos Preegadores por la gracia de Deus arcibispo de Santiago, Capellan mayor del Rey et Chanceller e notario mayor do Reyno de Leon, por grandes querelas e por gran chamor pervereo que se fazian ennas friigyesías do noso arcibispado, grandes deguysados, iniurias et exeessoes per aquelles que tirauan et leuauan as penas das friigesias, que non tomaban os lobos ou a camada delles leuando mays que deuian et agraueando as gentes en como non deuian; por ende nos querendo y poer Remedio, ordinamos et mandamos que enna friigesía que ouuer XV friigeses ou mays poucos, se non tomaren lobo ou loba ou camada delles, ou non correren cada domaa con elles sen enganno segundo que e de custume des o primeyro sabado de quaresma ata dia de Sam Joham de Juyo, ou non fezeren o ffogio, que pagen X mrs.

     Everyone must know, that since to us, lord friar Berenger de Landore, of the Order of the Preachers, by the grace of God archibishop of Santiago, master chaplain of the king and chancellor and master notary of the Kingdom of Leon, because of the great complaints and great outcry that they did in the parishes of our archbishopric, because of the large crimes, slanders and excesses by those who took and carried the fines of the parishes that did not took the wolves or their litters, taking more than what they ought to, and harming the people as they should not; hence, we, wanting to put a solution to this, order and command that in every parish where there are 15 parishioners or less, if they didn't took a wolf or litter of them, or they didn't run them away each week, without trickery, as is the custom since the first Saturday of Lent till Saint John's day of June, or they didn't built a trap, they shall pay 10 maravedis.

2. remedy, cure

Related terms

• remediar

 

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “remedio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “remedio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “remedio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “remedio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “remedio”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish remedio, English remedy, Italian rimedio and French remède.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈme.djo/, /reˈme.di.o/

Noun

remedio (plural remedii)

1. remedy, corrective, solution
2. medicine, remedy, cure

Derived terms

• remediacho
• remediar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈme.di.oː/, [rɛˈmɛd̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈme.di.o/, [reˈmɛːd̪io]

Noun

remediō

1. dative/ablative singular of remedium

References

• “remedio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• remedio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Verb

remedio

1. first-person singular present indicative of remediar

Etymology 2

Noun

remedio m (plural remedios)

1. Obsolete spelling of remédio.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈmedjo/ [reˈme.ð̞jo]
• Rhymes: -edjo
• Syllabification: re‧me‧dio

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin remedium. Compare Portuguese remédio.

Noun

remedio m (plural remedios)

1. remedy, solution
2. medicine

   Synonyms: medicamento, medicina

3. amendment (alteration or change for the better)

   Synonyms: arreglo, mejora

Derived terms

• a grandes males, grandes remedios
• agua de remedio
• es peor el remedio que la enfermedad
• no haber remedio
• no tener más remedio que (“to have no choice but to”)
• no tener remedio
• qué remedio
• remedio casero
• sin remedio

 

Etymology 2

Verb

remedio

1. first-person singular present indicative of remediar

Further reading

• “remedio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014