alexipharmacon

• alexipharmakon

alexipharmacon (plural alexipharmacons)

1. An antidote to a poison.

From Ancient Greek ἀλεξιφάρμακος (alexiphármakos, “antidote”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.lek.siˈpʰar.ma.kon/, [äɫ̪ɛks̠ɪˈpʰärmäkɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.lek.siˈfar.ma.kon/, [äleɡziˈfärmäkon]

alexipharmacon n (genitive alexipharmacī); second declension

1. an antidote (for a poison)

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• French: alexipharmaque
• Italian: alessifarmaco

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