placebo

Meaning

Noun

  • A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
  • The vespers sung in the office for the dead.

Origin

  • From Middle English placebo, from Latin placēbō ("I will please"), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō.

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