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galenic

adjective

galenic is an adjective meaning “of, or containing galena” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-L-E-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does galenic mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    of, or containing galena

adjective

as Galenic
  1. 1

    of, or relating to Galen, his followers, principles or practices, especially relating to vegetable preparations used as remedies.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is galenic?

Galenic appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Galenic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchgalénique
Germangalenisch

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does galenic come from?

From galena + -ic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).