Prescription - Wiktionary

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:prescriptionWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• præscription (archaic)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”), from prae- (“pre-, before”) + scribere (“to write”) + -tio (“-tion, forming nouns”). Equivalent to prescribe +‎ -tion.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/, (proscribed) /pɝˈskɹɪp.ʃən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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prescription (countable and uncountable, plural prescriptions)

1. (medicine, pharmacy, pharmacology) A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses. Synonyms: scrip, forescript, Rx, ℞ The surgeon had written thousands of prescriptions for pain killers without proper examinations before the police raided the clinic.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234:An old traditional prescription for provoking erotic inclinations ran as follows, The toe of the foot of a man, anointed with oil, or honey, or the ashes of a weasel.
2. (medicine) The medicine or treatment provided by such an order. I need you to pick up gramma's prescriptions on your way home.
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 9:"Oh, yes; she is the only sort of person for a nurse. She always," cried Lady Anne, with a sneer, "comes to you with a receipt for a pudding in one hand to make you ill, and then a prescription in the other to cure you."
3. (figurative) Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided. Early to bed and early to rise is a prescription for a long, healthy, and terrible life.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Return to Courtenaye Hall”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 145:Change is the universal prescription for a wounded spirit. "It will do you so much good," is the constant remark.
   • 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 157:...looking at him I saw that I had been wrong in my prescription, if not in my diagnosis, and that the whisky was working against us.
4. (law) Synonym of enactment, the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
   • 1997, Richard G. Alexander, “Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress Exceeds Its Jurisdiction to Prescribe Law”, in Washington & Lee Law Review, page 1609:A statute that cannot find justification for its prescription in one or more of these principles violates international law.
5. (linguistics) The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
6. (law) An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable. Synonyms: extinctive prescription, liberative prescription
7. (law) An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it. Synonyms: acquisitive prescription, usucaption
8. (obsolete) Synonym of self-restraint, limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:There is an air of prescription about him which is always agreeable to Sir Leicester; he receives it as a kind of tribute.

Usage notes

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Often misspelled as or confused with proscription, the act of prohibiting something or condemning someone; in the linguistic sense, proscription is hyponymous to prescription.

Derived terms

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• coprescription
• deprescription
• e-prescription
• misprescription
• nonprescription
• non-prescription
• overprescription
• prescription bottle
• prescription drug
• prescription glasses
• prescriptionist
• prescriptionistic
• prescriptionless
• represcription
• underprescription

Related terms

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• prescribe

Translations

[edit] written order for the administration of a medicine

Albanian: recetë (sq) f Arabic: وَصْفَة طِبِّيَّة f (waṣfa ṭibbiyya), وَصْفَة f (waṣfa) Armenian: դեղատոմս (hy) (deġatoms), ռեցեպտ (hy) (ṙecʻept) (colloquial) Azerbaijani: resept, nüsxə (az) Belarusian: рэцэ́пт m (recépt) Bengali: প্রেসক্রিপশন (bn) (preśokripośon) Bulgarian: реце́пта (bg) f (recépta) Burmese: ဆေးစာ (my) (hce:ca) Catalan: recepta (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 藥方 / 药方 (joek6 fong1), 處方 / 处方 (cyu2 fong1) Hokkien: 藥方 / 药方 (zh-min-nan) (io̍h-hng), 處方 / 处方 (zh-min-nan) (chhú-hng) Mandarin: 藥方 / 药方 (zh) (yàofāng), 處方 / 处方 (zh) (chǔfāng) Czech: předpis (cs) m Danish: recept (da) c Dutch: voorschrift (nl) n, recept (nl) n Egyptian: (šsꜣw m) Estonian: retsept (et) Finnish: resepti (fi) French: ordonnance (fr) f Georgian: რეცეპტი (receṗṭi) German: Rezept (de) n, Verschreibung (de) f Greek: συνταγή (el) f (syntagí) Ancient Greek: ἀναγραφή f (anagraphḗ) Haitian Creole: preskripsyon Hebrew: מִרְשָׁם m (mirshám) Hindi: नुसख़ा m (nusxā), प्रिस्क्रिप्शन (priskripśan) Hungarian: recept (hu) Icelandic: lyfseðill (is) m Indonesian: resep dokter, resep (id) Irish: oideas (ga) m Italian: ricetta (it) f, prescrizione (it) f Japanese: 処方 (ja) (しょほう, shohō), 処方箋 (ja) (しょほうせん, shohōsen) Kazakh: ресеп (resep), дәріқағаз (därıqağaz) Khmer: វេជ្ជបញ្ជា (vɨccĕəʼ bɑñciə), សំបុត្រទិញថ្នាំ (sɑmbot tɨñ thnam), វេជ្ជបញ្ញត្តិ (vɨccĕəʼbaññat), អាណាប័ណ្ណ (ʼaanaa ban) Korean: 처방(處方) (ko) (cheobang), 처방전(處方箋) (ko) (cheobangjeon) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: nusxe (ku), raçêt (ku) Kyrgyz: рецепт (retsept) Lao: ຂນານ (kha nān) Latvian: recepte f Lithuanian: receptas m Macedonian: реце́пт m (recépt) Malay: surat ubat, preskripsi Māori: whakahau rongoā, ōta rongoā Mongolian: Cyrillic: жор (mn) (žor), эмийн жор (emiin žor) Mongolian script: ᠵᠣᠷ (ǰor), ᠡᠮ ᠦᠨᠵᠣᠷ (em-ün ǰor) Norwegian: Bokmål: resept m (for medicine); brilleseddel m (for lenses) Nynorsk: resept m (for medicine), brillesetel m (for lenses) Pashto: نسخه (ps) f (nosxá) Persian: Iranian Persian: نُسْخِه (nosxe), نُسْخِهٔ پِزِشْک (nosxe-ye pezešk), تَجْویز (tajviz) Polish: recepta (pl) f Portuguese: receita (pt) f Romanian: rețetă (ro) f Russian: реце́пт (ru) m (recépt), предписа́ние (ru) n (predpisánije) Scottish Gaelic: riaghailt-lèigh f, òrdugh-cungaidh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: рѐцепт m Latin: rècept (sh) m Sicilian: rizzetta f Slovak: predpis m Slovene: recept m Spanish: receta (es) f, medida (es) f (eyeglasses) Swedish: recept (sv) n Tagalog: reseta Tajik: нусха (nusxa), ретсепт (retsept) Thai: ใบสั่งยา (bai-sàng-yaa) Tibetan: སྨན་ཐོ (sman tho) Turkish: reçete (tr) Turkmen: resept Ukrainian: реце́пт m (recépt) Urdu: نُسْخَہ (ur) m (nusxa), پْریسْکْرِپْشَن (preskripśan) Uyghur: رېتسېپ (rëtsëp) Uzbek: retsept (uz) Vietnamese: toa thuốc Welsh: rhagnodyn m Yakut: рецепт (retsept)

prescribed medicine

Bulgarian: лека́рство по реце́пта n (lekárstvo po recépta) Finnish: reseptilääke (fi) French: prescription (fr) f Indonesian: resep (id) Sicilian: midicini f pl Spanish: remedios recetados m pl, medicinas (es) m pl, medicamentos (es) m pl

plan of treatment or planned treatment

Polish: recepta (pl) f, przepis (pl) m inan Russian: лека́рство по реце́пту n (lekárstvo po recéptu) Spanish: receta (es) f

the act of establishing a law or regulation in writing; an instance of this

Bulgarian: наре́ждане (bg) n (naréždane), предписа́ние (bg) n (predpisánie) Dutch: uitvaardigen (nl) n Finnish: säätäminen (fi) French: prescription (fr) f German: Rechtssetzung f Greek: παραγραφή (el) f (paragrafí) (δικαιώματος (el) n (dikaiómatos)) Italian: direttiva (it) f, disposizione (it) f, ordine (it) m, norma (it) f, ricetta (it) f Polish: normotwórstwo (pl) n, rozporządzanie n, rozporządzenie (pl) n Romanian: prescripție (ro) f, recomandare (ro) f Russian: предписа́ние (ru) n (predpisánije), распоряже́ние (ru) n (rasporjažénije), прескри́пция (ru) f (preskrípcija) Spanish: prescripción (es) f

the act or practice of laying down norms of language usage; an instance of this

Dutch: taalregulering French: prescription (fr) f Polish: preskrypcja (pl) f, kodyfikacja normatywna f, kodyfikacja preskryptywna f Romanian: prescripție (ro) f Russian: прескри́пция (ru) f (preskrípcija) Serbo-Croatian: Latin: pròpis (sh) m, preskrìpcija (sh) f Spanish: prescripción (es) f

extinctive or liberative prescription — see also statute of limitations

Arabic: تَقَادُم m (taqādum) Bulgarian: да́вност (bg) f (dávnost) Dutch: bevrijdende verjaring f Finnish: vanhentumisaika (fi) French: prescription extinctive f, prescription libératoire f German: Verjährung (de) f Hungarian: elévülés (hu) Italian: prescrizione estintiva f Norwegian: Bokmål: foreldelse m Polish: przedawnienie n Portuguese: prescrição extintiva f Romanian: prescripția răspunderii penale f (in criminal law) Russian: срок да́вности m (srok dávnosti), да́вность (ru) f (dávnostʹ) Spanish: prescripción extintiva f, prescripción liberatoria f Thai: อายุความ (aa-yú-kwaam)

usucapion, acquisitive prescription — see adverse possession The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations. Translations to be checked

Norman: (please verify) prescription f (Jersey)

See also

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• prescriptivism

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French prescripcion, itself borrowed from Latin praescrīptiō.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /pʁɛs.kʁip.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

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prescription f (plural prescriptions)

1. (medicine) prescription (written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses)
2. (law, sometimes figuratively) abandon of legal action by virtue of a statute of limitations; principle by which a person can no longer be prosecuted for a crime when a certain amount of time has elapsed Il y a prescription. ― Let bygones be bygones.
3. (linguistics) prescription (act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use) Coordinate term: description

Usage notes

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• Not to be confused with proscription.

Related terms

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• prescriptif
• imprescriptible

Further reading

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• “prescription”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French prescripcion, borrowed from Latin praescriptio, praescriptionem.

Noun

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prescription f (plural prescriptions)

1. (Jersey) prescription