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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin medicīna, from medicus (“physician”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese meezinha.
Pronunciation
Noun
melezina f (plural melezinas)
- medicine, remedy
c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 12r:Et los fiſicos metẽ deſta piedra una poca en las melezinas que fazẽ por eſtãcar las grãdes malazones.- So physicians put some of this stone in the medicines they make to lighten grave illnesses.
- Idem, f. 22r.
Et eſta es melezina muy bona pora las llagas. ca las faz madurar ayna ⁊ uenir a uenino ⁊ come la carne mala que se faze en ellas.- And this is a very good medicine for wounds, for it makes them heal soon and become benign, and it eats the dead flesh around them.
Descendants
Spanish
Verb
melezina
- inflection of melezinar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative