diascordium

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noun

A medicine made from dried herbs, especially Teucrium scordium.

OriginAncient Greek διὰ σκορδίων →
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Meanings

noundiascordium (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablemedicineA medicine made from dried herbs, especially Teucrium scordium.

    Laudanum Paracelsi is prescribed in two or three grains, with a dram of diascordium, which Oswald. Crollius commends.

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 5, member 1, subsection 6

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekδιὰ σκορδίων
  2. Englishdiascordium

Medical Latin, from Ancient Greek διὰ σκορδίων (dià skordíōn), from σκόρδιον (skórdion, “scordium”).

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diascordium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diascordium

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