Meaning

1 senses
  1. A medicine that produces sweating.

    a medicine that causes or increases sweating

Translations

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Origin

From New Latin sudorificus, from sūdor (“sweat”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“sweat

From New Latin sudorificus, from sūdor (“sweat”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“sweat; to sweat”)) + -ificus (from Proto-Italic *-fakos (suffix forming adjectives that denote bringing or making), ultimately related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”)).

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Forms

plural: sudorifics

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a medicine that causes or increases sweating:sudatory

See also

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