Noun: panacea
| Singular | panacea |
| Plural | panaceas; panaceae; panaceæ |
Sample Sentences
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A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
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When busy he was better, and appeared to think perpetual motion a panacea for his unnamed and un-nameable complaint; and so much were they hurried from place to place, after their arrival at Genoa, that both sisters were thankful when they embarked again, as the sea appeared a resting-place... [1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 53:]
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Podson was seated on the bed, going through such turf forecasts as he could find in the papers; his panacea for correcting the mistakes of fortune. [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 206:]
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Hydrogen is not a panacea for reaching the zero net emissions target by 2050, but it can grow to become "a big niche" fuel in particular sectors and applications, claims a new report. [2023 January 11, “Network News: MPs seek clarity on hydrogen's role”, in RAIL, number 974, page 13:]
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But dollarization is not a panacea for Argentina’s crisis-stricken economy, analysts say. [2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business:]
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There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like panacea
saliva,
sclera,
subpoena,
persona,
panacea,
amoebula,
cannula,
corolla,
hydrotheca,
scrofula,
fovea,
flora,
hydra,
testa,
vulva,
amebula,
ballista,
hyperbola,
infant formula,
endotesta, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”). See: Latin Nouns '
panacēa', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πανάκεια'.