prescription

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from +  +.

Noun

 * 1)   A written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as  the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses.
 * 2)   The medicine or treatment provided by such an order.
 * 3)   Any plan of treatment or handling; the treatment or handling thus provided.
 * , the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
 * 1)   The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
 * 2)   An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
 * 3)   An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
 * , limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
 * , the act of establishing a law, regulation, etc., particularly in writing; an instance of this.
 * 1)   The act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use; an instance of this.
 * 2)   An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
 * 3)   An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
 * , limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
 * 1)   An established time period within which a right must be exercised and after which it is null and permanently unenforceable.
 * 2)   An established time period after which a person who has uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly used another's property acquires full ownership of it.
 * , limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
 * , limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.
 * , limiting of one's actions especially according to a moral code or social conventions.

Usage notes
Often misspelled as or confused with, the act of prohibiting something or condemning someone; in the linguistic sense, proscription is hyponymous to prescription.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: وَصْفَة طِبِّيَّة, وَصْفَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: resept,
 * Belarusian: рэцэ́пт
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 藥方, 處方
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: რეცეპტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀναγραφή
 * Haitian Creole: preskripsyon
 * Hebrew: מִרְשָׁם
 * Hindi: नुसख़ा
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: resep dokter,
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: рецепт
 * Khmer: វេជ្ជបញ្ជា, សំបុត្រទិញថ្នាំ, វេជ្ជបញ្ញត្តិ, អាណាប័ណ្ណ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: рецепт
 * Lao: ຂນານ
 * Latvian: recepte
 * Lithuanian: receptas
 * Macedonian: реце́пт
 * Malay: preskripsi
 * Maori: whakahau rongoā, ōta rongoā
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, эмийн жор
 * Mongolian: ᠵᠣᠷ, ᠡᠮ ᠦᠨ ᠵᠣᠷ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: resept ; brilleseddel
 * Nynorsk: resept, brillesetel
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, نسخه پزشک
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: riaghailt-lèigh, òrdugh-cungaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: рѐцепт
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: rizzetta
 * Slovak: predpis
 * Slovene: recept
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: reseta
 * Tajik: нусха, ретсепт
 * Thai: ใบสั่งยา
 * Tibetan: སྨན་ཐོ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: resept
 * Ukrainian: реце́пт
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: رېتسېپ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: toa thuốc
 * Welsh: rhagnodyn
 * Yakut: рецепт


 * Bulgarian: лекарство по рецепта
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Indonesian:
 * Sicilian: midicini
 * Spanish: remedios recetados, ,


 * Polish: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Rechtssetzung
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, , , ,
 * Polish:, rozporządzanie,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: taalregulering
 * French:
 * Polish:, kodyfikacja normatywna, kodyfikacja preskryptywna
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: تَقَادُم
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: bevrijdende verjaring
 * Finnish:
 * French: prescription extinctive, prescription libératoire
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: prescrizione estintiva
 * Polish: przedawnienie
 * Portuguese: prescrição extintiva
 * Romanian: prescripția răspunderii penale
 * Russian: срок да́вности,
 * Spanish: prescripción extintiva, prescripción liberatoria
 * Thai: อายุความ


 * Norman:

Adjective

 * 1) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
 * Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: отпускан с рецепта
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: resepti-
 * French: à prescription
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: пре́пишан
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, recetario
 * Swedish:

Etymology
, itself borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  prescription written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses
 * 2)  abandon of legal action by virtue of a statute of limitations; principle by which a person can no longer be prosecuted for a crime when a certain amount of time has elapsed
 * 3)  prescription act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use
 * 1)  prescription act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with.

Etymology
From, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  prescription