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• medcinal (archaic)

From Latin medicīnālis. By surface analysis, medicine +‎ -al.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /məˈdɪ.sɪ.nəl/, /-sə-/, /məˈdɪs.nəl/
• (Indic) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.ɖɪ.sə.nəl/, /ˈmɛ.ɖɪs.nəl/
• Hyphenation: me‧dic‧i‧nal

medicinal (not comparable)

1. Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
2. Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain.
   • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Amanita jatanum, Elaaden:
     Though not poisonous, this mildly psychoactive mushroom has valuable medicinal properties. Extracted agents could be used to enhance medi-gels pain-reducing capabilities.
   • 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
     The town [Cheltenham] "is celebrated for its medicinal waters" and "has been for the last sixty years one of the most elegant and fashionable watering places in England".
3. Tasting like medicine; particularly of unpleasant or artificially sweet or bitter flavours.

• biomedicinal

• ethnomedicinal

• medicinal chemistry

• medicinal finger

• medicinally

• nonmedicinal

• phytomedicinal

• semimedicinal

• telemedicinal

• unmedicinal

• medical

• medication

• medicational

• medicine

tending to cure disease

• Arabic: عِلَاجِيّ (ʕilājiyy)
• Armenian: բուժիչ (hy) (bužičʻ), բուժական (hy) (bužakan)
• Bulgarian: целебен (bg) (celeben)
• Catalan: medicinal (ca)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 藥 / 药 (zh), 藥材 / 药材 (zh) (yàocái), 藥物 / 药物 (zh) (yàowù)
• Dutch: geneeskrachtig (nl), genezend (nl)
• Finnish: parantava (fi)
• French: médicinal (fr), médicamenteux (fr)
• Galician: medicinal (gl)
• German: medikamentös (de), medizinal, medizinisch (de), Arznei- (de), Heil- (de)
• Hungarian: gyógyító (hu), gyógyhatású (hu), gyógy- (hu)
• Italian: medicamentoso (it) m, medicinale (it)
• Malayalam: ഔഷധ (ml) (auṣadha)
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: medisinsk
  Nynorsk: medisinsk
• Polish: leczniczy (pl)
• Romanian: medicinal (ro), vindecător (ro)
• Russian: лека́рственный (ru) (lekárstvennyj), лече́бный (ru) (lečébnyj), медици́нский (ru) (medicínskij)
• Spanish: medicinal (es), medicamentoso (es)
• Turkish: ilaç özelliği olan, iyileştirici, müsekkin (tr), teskin edici, tedavi edici

medicinal (plural medicinals)

1. Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.

• salutary
• “medicinal”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “medicinal, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• adminicle, miniclade

From Latin medicīnālis.

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.ði.siˈnal]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [me.ði.siˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al

medicinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural medicinals)

1. medicinal (of or pertaining to medicine)

• mèdic
• medicina
• “medicinal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “medicinal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “medicinal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “medicinal”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Latin medicīnālis. By surface analysis, medicina +‎ -al.

medicinal m or f (plural medicinais)

1. medicinal (of or pertaining to medicine)

• medicinalmente

• medicina

• médico

• “medicinal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From Latin medicīnālis. By surface analysis, medicina +‎ -al.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.d͡ʒi.siˈnaw/ [me.d͡ʒi.siˈnaʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.di.siˈnal/ [mɨ.ði.siˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.di.siˈnal/ [mɨ.ði.siˈnaɫ]

  • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.di.siˈna.li/ [mɨ.ði.siˈna.li]

• Hyphenation: me‧di‧ci‧nal

medicinal m or f (plural medicinais)

1. medicinal (of or pertaining to medicine)

• medicinalmente

• medicina

• médico

• “medicinal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

• “medicinal”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

• “medicinal”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

• “medicinal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French médicinal, from Latin medicīnālis. By surface analysis, medicină +‎ -al.

medicinal m or n (feminine singular medicinală, masculine plural medicinali, feminine/neuter plural medicinale)

1. medicinal (of or pertaining to medicine)

From Latin medicīnālis. By surface analysis, medicina +‎ -al.

• IPA(key): /mediθiˈnal/ [me.ð̞i.θiˈnal] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA(key): /medisiˈnal/ [me.ð̞i.siˈnal] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: me‧di‧ci‧nal

medicinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural medicinales)

1. medicinal (of or pertaining to medicine)

• cantárida medicinal

• medicinalmente

• medicamentoso

• medicina

• médico

• “medicinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025