Nostrum

Definitions: Nostrum

Nostrum

Noun

1. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists.

2. Patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable.

Date "nostrum" was first used: 1602. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Nostrum

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Nostrum means Our own. It is applied to a quack medicine, the ingredients of which are supposed to be a secret of the compounders. (Latin.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	NOSTRUM. A medicine prepared by particular persons only, a quack medicine. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Nostrum

Synonyms: cure-all (n), panacea (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Nostrum

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discord	Phrase: quot homines tot sententiae; no love lost between them, non nostrum tantas componere lites; Mars gravior sub pace latet.
Impossibility	Phrase: the grapes are sour; non possumus; non nostrum tantas componere lites; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin; il a le mer _ boire.
Plan	Contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying; stratagem; (cunning); trick; (deception); alternative, loophole; shift; (substitute); last shift; (necessity).
Remedy	Nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon, panacea, elixir, elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac, ptisan.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Nostrum

English words defined with "nostrum": mare nostrum ♦ Nostrums ♦ Oil of talc ♦ Sulphur auratum. (references)

Specialty definitions using "nostrum": NOSTRUM. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Nostrum" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (our, our men, ourselves, we).

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Modern Usage: Nostrum

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Mare nostrum (1948)
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Commercial Usage: Nostrum

Domain	Title
Books	AUTOPISTAS DEL MARE NOSTRUM S.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) Mar de Cortés : mare nostrum (reference) Mare Balticum, mare nostrum : Latin in the countries of the Baltic Sea (1500-1800) : acts of the Helsinki Colloquium, 16-21 August, 1992 (reference) Mare nostrum (reference) Mare nostrum : cuentos (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Aurum Nostrum (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Nostrum

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Spain	The privatization of IBERIA, the merger of AVIACO and BINTER into the same airline group, and the purchase of new airplanes by Spanair, Air Europa and Air Nostrum are bringing new opportunities for U.S. businesses. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nostrum

"Nostrum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nostrum" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Nostrum

Expressions using "nostrum": mare nostrum ♦ non nostrum tantas componere lites. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nostrum

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mare nostrum	39
air nostrum	21
nostrum	19
hotel mare nostrum	7
mare nostrum resort	6
barcelona mare nostrum	5
mare nostrum swimming	4
2003 mare nostrum	3
mare nostrum resort tenerife	3
hotel ibiza mare nostrum	2
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Modern Translations: Nostrum

Language		Translations for "nostrum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zgjidhje e shkëlqyer, mjet shërues (cure), bar popullor. (various references)

Arabic		‏عقار سري التركيب. (various references)

Bulgarian		разковниче (philosopher's stone), цяр за всичко, пенкилер (cure-all, do all, painkiller, panacea). (various references)

Farsi		علاج هرچیز, داروءی که علاج هردردباشد. (various references)

French		panacée. (various references)

German		Geheimmittel (nostrums). (various references)

Greek		γιατροσόφι, πανάκεια (panacea), φάρμακο πάσησ ασθένειασ. (various references)

Hungarian		csodaszer (cure-all, heal-all, panacea, plaster for all sores, wonder substance). (various references)

Indonesian		jamu (herbal medicine, tonic). (various references)

Italian		toccasana (cure-all), panacea (panacea). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		秘薬 (secret medicine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひやく (activity, leapfrog, leaping, secret medicine). (various references)

Manx		lheeys folliaghtagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ostrumnay

Portuguese		narina (blowhole, nostril), droga de charlatão, droga (chaff, doping, drug, drug of abuse, physic, shebang, tripe). (various references)

Russian		снадобье, лекарство от всех болезней (cure-all), патентованное средство (proprietary), излюбленный прием. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tajni lek. (various references)

Spanish		remedio secreto, panacea (cureall, panacea, plaster). (various references)

Swedish		patentmedicin (patent medicine), botemedel mot allt ont. (various references)

Thai		ยาสามัญประจำบ้าน. (various references)

Turkish		kocakarı ilacı (folk remedy, simple), her derde deva (cure-all), dertlere çare olacağı öne sürülen yenilik. (various references)

Ukranian		улюблений прийом, засіб від усіх лих, ліки від усіх хвороб, панацея (cure-all, nepenthes, panacea). (various references)

Vietnamese		thuốc lang băm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Nostrum

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	nostrum remedium, rememdium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Nostrum

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 11, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ton arton hmwn ton epiousion didou hmin to kaq hmeran
Latin	405	Vulgate	Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis cotidie
Old English	990	West Saxon	Syle us todæg urne dæghwamlican hlaf:
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Yyue `to vs to dai oure ech daies breed.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Oure dayly breed geve vs evermore.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Give us day by day our daily bread.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Give us day by day our daily bread.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Give us every day bread for our needs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Nostrum

Language	Luke Chapter 11, Verse 3
Cebuano	Sa adlaw-adlaw hatagi kami sa among kalan-on sa matag-adlaw;
Croatian	Kruh naš svagdanji daji nam svaki dan!
Danish	giv os hver dag vort daglige Brød;
Dutch	Geef ons elken dag ons dagelijks brood.
Finnish	anna meille joka päivä meidän jokapäiväinen leipämme;
French	Donne-nous chaque jour notre pain quotidien;
German	Gib uns unser täglich Brot immerdar.
Haitian Creole	Chak jou, ban nou manje nou bezwen pou jounen an.
Hungarian	A mi mindennapi kenyerünket add meg nékünk naponként.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Berilah setiap hari makanan yang kami perlukan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	berilah kami tiap-tiap hari makanan kami yang secukupnya pada sehari;
Italian	dacci ogni giorno il nostro pane quotidiano,
Latvian	Mûsu dieniðío maizi dod mums ðodien!
Manx Gaelic	Cur dooin laa Iurg laa nyn arran gagh laa.
Maori	Homai ta matou taro ki a matou, to tenei ra, to tenei ra.
Norwegian	gi oss hver dag vårt daglige brød;
Portuguese	dá-nos cada dia o nosso pão cotidiano;
Rumanian	Pknea noastrq cea de toate zilele dq-ne -o nouq kn fiecare zi;
Russian	ИМЕ�' ОБЫ ОБУХЭОЩК � П�"БЧБК ОБН ОБ ЛБЦ�"ЩК �"ЕОШ;
Shuar	Aparú, ii yurumkari Ashí tsawant amasta.
Spanish	el pan nuestro de cada día, dánoslo hoy;
Swahili	Utupe daima chakula chetu cha kila siku.
Swedish	vårt dagliga bröd giv oss var dag;
Uma	Wai' -kai pongkoni' to kiparaluu eo-eo-na.
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Derivations & Misspellings: Nostrum

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nostrum": nostrums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nostrum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anstraum, nassirim, noctium, Noctorum, noctua, Nostramo, nostras, Nostre, nostrom, Nozrim, Nuestro. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nostrum"

Words rhyming with "nostrum" (pronounced 'Nos"trum'): Alabastrum, Antrum, Calamistrum, Centrum, Claustrum, Colostrum, Intercentrum, lustrum, Plectrum, Pleurocentrum, rostrum, Sequestrum, Sistrum, spectrum, tantrum, Triquetrum, Zygantrum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Nostrum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "m-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: mounts, mourns, mutons, tumors.
	-2 letters: morns, morts, mount, mourn, muons, muton, norms, notum, roust, routs, runts, snort, snout, storm, stour, strum, tonus, torus, tours, tumor, turns.
	-3 letters: mons, morn, mors, mort, most, mots, muns, muon, must, muts, noms, norm, nous, nuts, onus, orts, ours, oust, outs, roms, rots, rout, rums, runs, runt, rust.
	Words containing the letters "m-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: mounters, nostrums, remounts, romaunts, surmount.
	+2 letters: monstrous, rousement, strontium, surmounts, undermost.
	+3 letters: augmentors, consortium, importunes, misfortune, misrouting, monestrous, moonstruck, numerators, outnumbers, paramounts, resumption, rousements, ruminators, sanatorium, sanitorium, stormbound, stramonium, strontiums, surmounted, tremendous, uniformest.
	+4 letters: consortiums, consumerist, consummator, coterminous, documenters, enumerators, importuners, laundromats, maturations, mensuration, misconstrue, misfortunes, mistutoring, monstrously, morulations, motoneurons, natatoriums, neuroticism, noncustomer, nourishment, numerations, opportunism, ostensorium, outdoorsman, outdoorsmen, outsmarting, pentamerous, peritoneums, positronium, presumption, protohumans, recoupments, resumptions, ruminations, sanatoriums, sanitoriums, stramoniums, surmounting, tambourines, tourmalines, tournaments, uncustomary, urinometers, venturesome, voluntarism.
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