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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin laxativus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
laxatif (feminine laxative, masculine plural laxatifs, feminine plural laxatives)
- laxative
Noun
laxatif m (plural laxatifs)
- a laxative
- Synonym: purgatif
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Old French
Adjective
laxatif m (oblique and nominative feminine singular laxative)
- (medicine) laxative
1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 205 of this essay:il ne prendra point de medecine laxative- he will not take any laxative medicine
Noun
laxatif oblique singular, m (oblique plural laxatis, nominative singular laxatis, nominative plural laxatif)
- (medicine) laxative