suppository
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English
Etymology
From Middle English suppositorie, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin suppositorium, from Late Latin, neuter of suppositorius (“placed beneath”), from Latin supponere (“to put under”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /səˈpɒzɪtəɹi/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) enPR: sə-päzʹĭ-tôr'ē, IPA(key): /səˈpɑzɪˌtɔɹi/
Noun
suppository (plural suppositories)
- (medicine) A medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity, especially the rectum, vagina or urethra, where it melts at body temperature.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 372:
- He's smoother than a suppository, only his suppositories contain dynamite.
Translations
medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity
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