"placebo" meaning in English

See placebo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pləˈsiː.bəʊ/ [UK], /pləˈsi.boʊ/ [Canada, US], /pləˈsiː.bəʉ/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-placebo.wav Forms: placebos [plural], placeboes [plural]
Rhymes: -iːbəʊ Etymology: From Middle English placebo, from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“I please”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|placebo}} Middle English placebo, {{der|en|la|placēbō||I will please}} Latin placēbō (“I will please”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|placeboes}} placebo (plural placebos or placeboes)
  1. (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment): плацебо (placebo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), placebo [masculine] (Catalan), 安慰劑 (Chinese Mandarin), 安慰剂 (ānwèijì) (Chinese Mandarin), placebo [neuter] (Czech), placebo [common-gender, neuter] (Danish), placebo [feminine] (Dutch), чавоменге (čavomenge) (Erzya), placebo (Esperanto), lumelääke (Finnish), plasebo (Finnish), placebo [masculine] (French), placebo [masculine] (Galician), Placebo [neuter] (German), Plazebo [neuter] (German), ψευδοφάρμακο (psevdofármako) [neuter] (Greek), פְּלָצֶבּוֹ (platzébo) [masculine] (Hebrew), कूटभेषज (kūṭbheṣaj) (Hindi), lyfleysa [feminine] (Icelandic), þóknunarhrifslyf [neuter] (Icelandic), placebo (Irish), placebo (Italian), 偽薬 (giyaku) (alt: ぎやく) (Japanese), プラセボ (purasebo) (Japanese), плацебо (placebo) [neuter] (Macedonian), placebo (Norwegian), placebo [neuter] (Polish), placebo [masculine] (Portuguese), плаце́бо (placébo) [neuter] (Russian), placebo [masculine] (Spanish), placebo (Swedish), மருந்துப்போலி (maruntuppōli) (Tamil), плацебо́ (placebó) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead. Categories (topical): Roman Catholicism
    Sense id: en-placebo-en-noun-fUWDexwA Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: antiplacebo, nonplacebo, placebic, placebo button, placebo-controlled, placebo effect, placebogenic, placebolike, placebome Related terms: drug, nocebo

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Hindi translations",
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    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
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          "ref": "2021 March 8, Jane E. Brody, “Medical Marijuana Is Not Regulated as Most Medicines Are”, in The New York Times:",
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      "roman": "placebo",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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    },
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      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "placebo"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "安慰劑"
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      "roman": "ānwèijì",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "placebo"
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      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
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      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "placebo"
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      "code": "myv",
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      "roman": "čavomenge",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "lumelääke"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "plasebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Plazebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "psevdofármako",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ψευδοφάρμακο"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "platzébo",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "פְּלָצֶבּוֹ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "kūṭbheṣaj",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "कूटभेषज"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lyfleysa"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "þóknunarhrifslyf"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぎやく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "giyaku",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "偽薬"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "purasebo",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "プラセボ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "placebo",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "плацебо"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "placébo",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "плаце́бо"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "placebo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "maruntuppōli",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "word": "மருந்துப்போலி"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "placebó",
      "sense": "a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "плацебо́"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "placebo"
  ],
  "word": "placebo"
}

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