The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromnostrum“ours”
- English todaynostrum
Learned borrowing from Latin nostrum (“ours”), nominative neuter of noster (“our, ours”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nostrum
Today it means: A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects. Full definition →
Latin nostrum