Other forms: preparations
Preparation is the work of getting ready. Careful preparation, in preparation for, weeks of preparation.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail is the standard motto, and the useful version of it is that preparation converts panic into routine. In pharmacy a preparation is a made-up medicine. The Latin means to make ready beforehand.
1nounpreparationThe work of getting ready.
“The team's preparation for the final included extra training every morning.”
2nounmedicineA made-up medicine.
“The pharmacist recommended a herbal preparation for my sore throat.”
preparation is a getting ready.
Latin praeparatio comes from praeparare, to make ready beforehand — prae, before, plus parare, to prepare.
Proto-Indo-European
*per-
Latin
praeparatio
Middle French
preparacion
Middle English
preparacion
English, today
preparation
From Middle English preparacion, from Middle French preparacion, from Latin praeparatio. Morphologically prepare + ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA