Medication

来自Big Physics

wiktionary

ref

From Middle French médication, from Latin medicatio, from medicari(“to heal, cure”), from medicus(“a physician, surgeon”), from mederi(“to heal”).


etymonline

ref

medication (n.)

early 15c., medicacioun, "medical treatment of a disease or wound," from Old French médication and directly from Latin medicationem (nominative medicatio) "healing, cure," noun of action from past-participle stem of medicare, medicari "to medicate, heal, cure" (poetic and Late Latin) from medicus "physician; healing" (from PIE root *med- "take appropriate measures"). Meaning "a medicinal substance or product" is by 1942.