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- Dictionarymedicine/ˈmɛd(ɪ)s(ɪ)n/
noun
- 1. the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery): "he made distinguished contributions to pathology and medicine" Similar
- 2. a drug or other preparation for the treatment or prevention of disease: "give her some medicine" Similar
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Dec 11, 2017 · In the word "medicinal", the first "i" is always pronounced because it occurs in a stressed syllable, unlike in "medicine". But there is some evidence that in the past, some speakers used an alternative stress pattern for the word "medicinal" that resulted in the first "i" being unstressed and possibly left out.
As for why the word pronounce has an O between the two N’s and pronunciation does not, it is unclear, but both words derive from French, pronunciation from pronunciation and pronounce from pronuncier. There is probably some variation in the way the different word stress affected how the words were spelled after being borrowed into English.
1. Looking at it as an outsider, it seems to me that it should be: Medicine (noun) - 1) Referring to the field itself, the profession of healing. Medication (noun) - 1) The act of using a method from the field of medicine to treat someone. Medicate (verb) - 1) To treat someone using a method from the field of medicine.
Nov 15, 2017 · When I try Google, it says 5 syllables (and so do most top result websites): lab·o·ra·to·ry (the dots do not matter, it explicitly states that there are 5 syllables). However, the pronunciation as...
So basically the unusual /i/ pronunciation of 'oe' originates from the Greek 'oi' via Latin. Interestingly, even within the same field of e.g. medicine, while some words seem to be in the process of changing their pronunciation (oestrogen is pronounced both ways), others are still in the /i/ phase (diarrhoea).
May 15, 2011 · 23. The American pronuncation is usually /ərb/ without the h, while the British pronunciation is usually /hɜː (r)b/ with the h, but maybe without the r. It was formerly pronounced without the h in the U.K; the British author E. Nesbit used "an herb" in her book The Wonderful Garden (1911), probably indicating that she pronounced it without ...
Jun 14, 2012 · The pair 'ae' or the single mushed together symbol 'æ', is not pronounced as two separate vowels. It comes (almost always) from a borrowing from Latin. In the original Latin it is pronounced as /ai/ (in IPA) or to rhyme with the word 'eye'. But, for whatever reason, it is usually pronounced as '/iy/' or "ee".
Adding laboratory and territory to the list along with medicine and secretary, Patricia T. O’Connor observes here and here that dropping the penultimate syllable is a relatively “new” phenomenon in UK English, arising in the late 18 th and early-to-mid 19 th centuries.
Apr 12, 2019 · The regular representation of (stressed) long /ī/ in Latin loan words is /aɪ/ (rhyming with ‘eye’), and unstressed short /e/ is generally reduced to /ə/, so /ˈaɪdəm/ (the pronunciation I’m assuming is what the asker means by i-dem) would be the most expected pronunciation.
Aug 19, 2018 · Regarding "solder", I would like to know if anyone has access to a BrE dictionary from about between 1800 to 1900. That way, if it provides pronunciation we can know whether the 'l' sound was added to "solder" fairly recently in BrE. Another case of the Americans dropping the 'l' is in "salve": n 1. (Medicine) an ointment for wounds, sores, etc
