Talk:officinal

RFV discussion: November 2021
Rfv-sense MooreDoor (talk) 13:28, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The second and third senses could be the same. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:37, 9 November 2021 (UTC)


 * The legal definition of an officinal preparation in the EU is “any medicinal product which is prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with the prescriptions of a pharmacopoeia and is intended to be supplied directly to the patients served by the pharmacy in question.” The prescription of the pharmacopoeia is called the officinal formula. In older established use, the term is applied to herbs used in officinal preparations, also seen in the (New Latin) specific epithet, as used e.g. in Calendula officinalis and Jasminum officinale. I think sense 3 is essentially covered by the definition “medicinal” of sense 1, applied to a preparation, and is not really obsolete, although the practice described in the present definition is rather out of date. Clearly, sense 3 is derived by specialization from the older, more general and now obsolete sense 2, and was subsequently generalized to sense 1. --Lambiam 17:10, 9 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Not only was I unable to find non-medicinal uses of the term in English, but also in French, from which the term was allegedly borrowed, even the earliest uses I found are medicinal, like medicamens officinaux in a 1616 treatise. --Lambiam 20:41, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 01:18, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 20:21, 17 November 2021 (UTC)