prescription

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions
  2. noun a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
  3. noun written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French prescripcion, from Latin praescriptio (“preface; pretext; something written ahead of time”), from prae- (“pre-, before”) + scribere (“to write”) + -tio (“-tion, forming nouns”). Equivalent to prescribe + -tion.

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