The word for a pill used for a sore throat is it called a lausenge or lausenger.
2007-08-09 23:03:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Lozenge
2007-08-09 23:07:46 · answer #1 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
lozenge -
1. A small, medicated candy intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to lubricate and soothe irritated tissues of the throat.
2. A four-sided planar figure with a diamondlike shape; a rhombus that is not a square.
3. Something having this shape, especially a heraldic device.
Origin of lozenge -
c.1327, from O.Fr. losenge "windowpane, small square cake," etc., used for many flat quadrilateral things. Cognates in Sp. losanje, Catalan llosange, It. lozanga. Probably from a pre-Roman Celtic language, perhaps Iberian *lausa or Gaul. *lausa "flat stone" (cf. Prov. lausa, Sp. losa, Catalan llosa, Port. lousa "slab, tombstone"), from a pre-Celtic language. Originally in Eng. a term in heraldry; meaning "small cake or tablet (originally diamond-shaped) of medicine and sugar, etc., meant to be held in the mouth and dissolved" is from 1530.
2007-08-10 06:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lozenge.
2007-08-10 06:12:09 · answer #3 · answered by Tatsbabe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is spelled as "Lozenge" - a pill, tablet or pastille.
2007-08-10 06:09:57 · answer #4 · answered by pimpsquek7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lozenge
2007-08-10 11:02:03 · answer #5 · answered by entertainment fan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the second one
2007-08-10 06:14:41 · answer #6 · answered by loganxoxox 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
both are wrong
it is lozenge
2007-08-10 07:31:07 · answer #7 · answered by Manz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋