"prophylactic" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /pɹɒfəˈlæktɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-au-prophylactic.ogg [Australia] Forms: more prophylactic [comparative], most prophylactic [superlative]
Rhymes: -æktɪk Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|-}} Latin, {{uder|en|grc|πρό||before}} Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”), {{m|grc|φύλαξις||a watching, guarding}} φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} prophylactic (comparative more prophylactic, superlative most prophylactic)
  1. Serving to prevent or protect against an undesired effect, especially disease or pregnancy Categories (topical): Birth control Synonyms: preventative Derived forms: prophylactic rule, prophylactically Related terms: prophylaxis Translations (Translations): profilácticu (Asturian), прафілакты́чны (prafilaktýčny) (Belarusian), профилактичен (profilaktičen) (Bulgarian), profilàctic (Catalan), profylaxní [feminine, masculine, neuter] (Czech), profylakční [feminine, masculine, neuter] (Czech), profylaktický [masculine] (Czech), profylaktivní [feminine, masculine, neuter, rare] (Czech), profylaktisk (Danish), prophylactisch (Dutch), voorbehoedend (Dutch), ennalta ehkäisevä (Finnish), profylaktinen (Finnish), preventiivinen (Finnish), prophylactique [feminine, masculine] (French), profiláctico (Galician), prophylaktisch (German), profilaktikus (Hungarian), prophylactic (Interlingua), urchoscach (Irish), próifiolacsach (Irish), profilattico (Italian), profilaktisks (Latvian), profylaktisk (Norwegian), profilaktyczny [masculine] (Polish), profiláctico (Portuguese), профилактический (profilaktičeskij) (Russian), profiláctico (Spanish), profylaktisk (Swedish), профілакти́чний (profilaktýčnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-prophylactic-en-adj-TTDNCGA9 Disambiguation of Birth control: 58 14 21 7

Noun [English]

IPA: /pɹɒfəˈlæktɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-au-prophylactic.ogg [Australia] Forms: prophylactics [plural]
Rhymes: -æktɪk Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|-}} Latin, {{uder|en|grc|πρό||before}} Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”), {{m|grc|φύλαξις||a watching, guarding}} φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} prophylactic (plural prophylactics)
  1. A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
    Sense id: en-prophylactic-en-noun-tMCYCTkl
  2. A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
    (US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.
    Tags: US, specifically Synonyms: condom
    Sense id: en-prophylactic-en-noun-MlT~qJCM Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 18 41 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 11 60 14 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 19 14 50 16
  3. (figuratively) Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences. Tags: figuratively Translations (device or mechanism): profilàctic [masculine] (Catalan), ennalta ehkäisevä toimenpide (Finnish), suojakeino (Finnish), suoja (Finnish), προφυλακτικό (profylaktikó) [neuter] (Greek)
    Sense id: en-prophylactic-en-noun-1Z7~SDsu Disambiguation of 'device or mechanism': 0 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (preventive medicine): профилактика (profilaktika) [feminine] (Bulgarian), profilàctic [masculine] (Catalan), ennalta ehkäisevä lääke (Finnish), profylaksi (english: generic) (Finnish), ehkäisyväline (english: contraceptive) (Finnish), προφυλακτικό (profylaktikó) [neuter] (Greek), urchosc [masculine] (Irish)
Disambiguation of 'preventive medicine': 48 49 3

Adjective [Interlingua]

Head templates: {{head|ia|adjective|not comparable|||-||le -||le {{{sup2}}}|head=}} prophylactic (not comparable), {{ia-adj|-}} prophylactic (not comparable)
  1. prophylactic, preventive Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-prophylactic-ia-adj-lzu5REma Categories (other): Interlingua entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "profilattico"
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      "code": "lv",
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