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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈnɒs.tɹəm/ [UK], /ˈnɑ.stɹəm/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-nostrum.ogg Forms: nostrums [plural], nostra [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒstɹəm, -ɑstɹəm Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nostrum (“ours”), nominative neuter of noster (“our, ours”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la|nostrum||ours}} Learned borrowing from Latin nostrum (“ours”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|nostra}} nostrum (plural nostrums or nostra)
  1. A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects. Synonyms: nostrum remedium Translations (medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects): paardenremedie (Dutch), patenttilääke (Finnish), poudre de perlimpimpin (French), remède de bonne femme (French), orviétan (French), Hausmittel [neuter] (German), lekarstwo na wszystko (Polish), nostrum [masculine] (Polish), panaceum [neuter] (Polish), panaceia [feminine] (Portuguese), панацея (panaceja) [feminine] (Russian), remedio milagroso [masculine] (Spanish), droga de charlatán [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-nostrum-en-noun-4OFkQeE- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 63 37 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 62 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of 'medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects': 77 23
  2. (by extension) An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action. Tags: broadly Translations (ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, especially political): patenttilääke (Finnish), übliches Rezept [neuter] (German), altes Rezept [neuter] (German)
    Sense id: en-nostrum-en-noun-mnymOKCY Disambiguation of 'ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, especially political': 20 80

Pronoun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈnos.trum/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈnɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ] [Classical-Latin], /ˈnos.trum/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈnɔst̪rum] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Inflected form of nōs (“we”). Head templates: {{head|la|pronoun form}} nostrum
  1. of us; partitive genitive of nōs Synonyms: nostrī [genitive, objective]
    Sense id: en-nostrum-la-pron-GzQs3QMv Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 30 15 47 5 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 15 52 3 2 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 78 12 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Pronoun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈnos.trum/ [Classical-Latin], [ˈnɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ] [Classical-Latin], /ˈnos.trum/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈnɔst̪rum] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Inflected form of noster (“our, ours”). Head templates: {{head|la|pronoun form}} nostrum
  1. inflection of noster:
    nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    Tags: accusative, form-of, neuter, nominative, singular, vocative Form of: noster
    Sense id: en-nostrum-la-pron-cLzqsae7
  2. inflection of noster:
    accusative masculine singular
    Tags: accusative, form-of, masculine, singular Form of: noster
    Sense id: en-nostrum-la-pron-xZR0zca-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Nay, he would sometimes retire hither to take his beer, and it was not without difficulty that he was prevented from forcing Jones to take his beer too: for no quack ever held his nostrum to be a more general panacea than he did this; which, he said, had more virtue in it than was in all the physic in an apothecary's shop.",
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          "text": "In precisely the same way does a quack doctor prescribe his infallible nostrum to every patient, without taking into account differences of constitution, or [...]",
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          "ref": "1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 69:",
          "text": "I stammered out some few halting words of congratulation and then sat downcast, with my head drooped, deaf to the babble of our new acquaintance. He was clearly a confirmed hypochondriac, and I was dreamily conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms, and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable quack nostrums, some of which he bore about in a leather case in his pocket.",
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          "ref": "2004 August 25, “Find your thrill on blueberry hill”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The latest nutraceutical nostrum could come from the blueberry. Pterostilbene, a compound derived from the fruit, shows promise as a compound to lower cholesterol with few side effects, Agnes Rimando, of the US Department of Agriculture natural products team in Oxford, Mississippi, told the American Chemical Society.",
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          "text": "reformers of church charities [...made] known […] their different nostrums for setting Hiram's Hospital on its feet again.",
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          "ref": "1996, Louis Rossetto, “19th Century Nostrums are not Solutions to 21st Century Problems”, in Mute, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN:",
          "text": "And not because some clatch of bureaucrats in Strasbourg or Luxembourg have issued yet another directive, but because Europeans are recognising that 19th century nostrums are not solutions to 21st century problems—on the contrary, they are the problem—and it's time to encourage competition, risk taking, democracy and meritocracy, and, dare I say it, dreaming about a different, better future.",
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          "ref": "2006 November 22, Tania Branigan, quoting Greg Clark, “Cameron told: it's time to ditch Churchill”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "In a paper being published today, he writes: \"The traditional Conservative vision of welfare as a safety net encompasses another outdated Tory nostrum - that poverty is absolute, not relative. […]",
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          "ref": "2009, A.C. Grayling, Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century:",
          "text": "Neocons have far more interest in foreign policy than domestic policy. As regards the latter the reflex nostrums of right-wing attitudes apply: less tax, less government, libertarianism about matters such as gun control, encouragement of individual responsibility in health care and education, 'faith-based solutions' to social and welfare problems, and so forth.",
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          "ref": "2011, Sean Corrigan, The Wasteland:",
          "text": "With the glaring failure to predict even the possibility—much less circumstance—of the recent Crash and with the even more foreseeable failure of its tired old, rehashed nostrums of ending the slump by means of an inequitable programme of corporate welfare, inflationary \"unorthodoxy\", and the unleashing of the debt-spewing monster of the state to gorge itself upon such things as individuals and private concerns no longer care to consumer, it should hardly be controversial to asset that mainstream macroeconomics—and the reputations of the many panderers to power who practice it—are equally broken.",
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          "ref": "2022, China Miéville, chapter 4, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:",
          "text": "This is not least because a permeable membrane exists between the questioning of certain nostrums of the system, and questioning that system in its entirety.",
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          "ref": "1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 2:",
          "text": "In precisely the same way does a quack doctor prescribe his infallible nostrum to every patient, without taking into account differences of constitution, or [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 69:",
          "text": "I stammered out some few halting words of congratulation and then sat downcast, with my head drooped, deaf to the babble of our new acquaintance. He was clearly a confirmed hypochondriac, and I was dreamily conscious that he was pouring forth interminable trains of symptoms, and imploring information as to the composition and action of innumerable quack nostrums, some of which he bore about in a leather case in his pocket.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 August 25, “Find your thrill on blueberry hill”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The latest nutraceutical nostrum could come from the blueberry. Pterostilbene, a compound derived from the fruit, shows promise as a compound to lower cholesterol with few side effects, Agnes Rimando, of the US Department of Agriculture natural products team in Oxford, Mississippi, told the American Chemical Society.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects."
      ],
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        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "remedy",
          "remedy"
        ],
        [
          "conventional",
          "conventional"
        ],
        [
          "proven",
          "proven"
        ],
        [
          "desirable",
          "desirable"
        ],
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          "medical",
          "medical"
        ],
        [
          "effect",
          "effect"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nostrum remedium"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:",
          "text": "reformers of church charities [...made] known […] their different nostrums for setting Hiram's Hospital on its feet again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Louis Rossetto, “19th Century Nostrums are not Solutions to 21st Century Problems”, in Mute, volume 1, number 4, →ISSN:",
          "text": "And not because some clatch of bureaucrats in Strasbourg or Luxembourg have issued yet another directive, but because Europeans are recognising that 19th century nostrums are not solutions to 21st century problems—on the contrary, they are the problem—and it's time to encourage competition, risk taking, democracy and meritocracy, and, dare I say it, dreaming about a different, better future.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 November 22, Tania Branigan, quoting Greg Clark, “Cameron told: it's time to ditch Churchill”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "In a paper being published today, he writes: \"The traditional Conservative vision of welfare as a safety net encompasses another outdated Tory nostrum - that poverty is absolute, not relative. […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, A.C. Grayling, Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century:",
          "text": "Neocons have far more interest in foreign policy than domestic policy. As regards the latter the reflex nostrums of right-wing attitudes apply: less tax, less government, libertarianism about matters such as gun control, encouragement of individual responsibility in health care and education, 'faith-based solutions' to social and welfare problems, and so forth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Sean Corrigan, The Wasteland:",
          "text": "With the glaring failure to predict even the possibility—much less circumstance—of the recent Crash and with the even more foreseeable failure of its tired old, rehashed nostrums of ending the slump by means of an inequitable programme of corporate welfare, inflationary \"unorthodoxy\", and the unleashing of the debt-spewing monster of the state to gorge itself upon such things as individuals and private concerns no longer care to consumer, it should hardly be controversial to asset that mainstream macroeconomics—and the reputations of the many panderers to power who practice it—are equally broken.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, China Miéville, chapter 4, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:",
          "text": "This is not least because a permeable membrane exists between the questioning of certain nostrums of the system, and questioning that system in its entirety.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action."
      ],
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          "remedy",
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          "political"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnɒs.tɹəm/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnɑ.stɹəm/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒstɹəm"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑstɹəm"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "word": "paardenremedie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "word": "patenttilääke"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "word": "poudre de perlimpimpin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "word": "remède de bonne femme"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "word": "orviétan"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Hausmittel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "word": "lekarstwo na wszystko"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nostrum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "panaceum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "panaceia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "panaceja",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "панацея"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "remedio milagroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "medicine or remedy which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "droga de charlatán"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, especially political",
      "word": "patenttilääke"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, especially political",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "übliches Rezept"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, especially political",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "altes Rezept"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nostrum"
}

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    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin non-lemma forms",
    "Latin pronoun forms",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
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        "Classical-Latin"
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        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnos.trum/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔst̪rum]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
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    {
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "objective"
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      "word": "nostrī"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nostrum"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Latin 2-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin non-lemma forms",
    "Latin pronoun forms",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "→ English: nostrum"
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  "etymology_text": "Inflected form of noster (“our, ours”).",
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      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
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    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnos.trum/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔst̪rum]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nostrum"
}

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