opium

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See also: ópium, ópíum, and Opium

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷos (“juice, resin”).

Pronunciation

Noun

opium (countable and uncountable, plural opiums or opia)

  1. (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium
  2. (by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

opium n

  1. opium

Declension

Declension of opium (semisoft neuter foreign)
singular plural
nominative opium opia
genitive opia opií
dative opiu opiím
accusative opium opia
vocative opium opia
locative opiu opiích
instrumental opiem opii

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch opium, from Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoː.pi.ʏm/
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  • Hyphenation: opi‧um

Noun

opium n or m (uncountable)

  1. opium
    Synonym: amfioen

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  • Afrikaans: opium
  • → Indonesian: opium
  • → West Frisian: opium

French

Pronunciation

Noun

opium m (plural opiums)

  1. opium

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch opium, from Middle Dutch opium, from Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion). Doublet of apiun.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔpiʊm/
  • Hyphenation: opi‧um
  • Rhymes: -ʊm, -m

Noun

opium (plural opium-opium, first-person possessive opiumku, second-person possessive opiummu, third-person possessive opiumnya)

  1. opium: a yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷos (“juice, resin”).

Pronunciation

Noun

opium n (genitive opiī or opī); second declension

  1. opium, poppy-juice

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative opium opia
Genitive opiī
opī1 		opiōrum
Dative opiō opiīs
Accusative opium opia
Ablative opiō opiīs
Vocative opium opia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

  • “opium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • opium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion).

Noun

opium m (definite singular opiumen, uncountable)

  1. opium

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion).

Noun

opium n or m (definite singular opiumet or opiumen, uncountable)

  1. opium

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Romanian

Noun

opium n (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of opiu

Swedish

Noun

opium c

  1. opium (a drug)
    Religionen är ett opium för folket.
    Religion is the opium of the people. (Karl Marx)

Declension

Declension of opium 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative opium opiet — —
Genitive opiums opiets — —

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