Other forms: remedies
A remedy is a treatment that eases a complaint. A home remedy, a herbal remedy, no known remedy.
Home remedies are the traditional ones people use before consulting anybody, and a few of them work. In law, a remedy is what a court can give you — damages, an injunction, an order — and no remedy means no case worth bringing, however real the wrong. As a verb, to remedy is to put right: remedy the situation. Note remedial, which of teaching means for those who have fallen behind.
1nounremedyA treatment that eases a complaint.
“Hot lemon with honey is a good remedy for a sore throat.”
2nouncourtWhat a court can order to put a wrong right.
“There was a real wrong and no remedy for it at all.”
remedy is a putting right.
Latin remedium is re- plus mederi, to heal — the same verb as in medicine and medical. A remedy is a healing again, and the legal sense borrowed the medical one whole.
Proto-Indo-European
*med-
Latin
remedium — a remedy, cure
Old French
*remedie
Middle English
remedie
English, today
remedy
Built from
From Middle English remedie, from Old French remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). a doublet of remeid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA