panacea

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 păn'-ə-sēʹ-ə

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
  2. A solution to all problems.
    — A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
  3. The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills. obsolete
    — There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]

词形变化

panaceas plural panaceae plural panaceæ plural panacaea alternative panacæa alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
panacean panaceist
相关词
nostrum

词源

From Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).
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