sudorific

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   That produces sweating.

   The herbal preparation was advertised as sudorific because it promoted sweating.

2. 2
   noun

   a medicine that causes or increases sweating

   The physician prescribed a sudorific to induce perspiration.

From New Latin sudorificus, from sūdor (“sweat”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“sweat; to sweat”)) + -ificus (from Proto-Italic *-fakos (suffix forming adjectives that denote bringing or making), ultimately related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”)).

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