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opium

See also: ópium, ópíum, and Opium

English

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Etymology

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    Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós
    Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós)
    Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ion)
    Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
    Latin opiumbor.
    Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
    English opium

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

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    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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    opium n

    1. opium

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    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

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

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

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    opium n or m (uncountable)

    1. opium
      Synonym: amfioen

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

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    opium m (plural opiums)

    1. opium

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    Etymology

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

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

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    opium (plural opium-opium)

    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

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

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      opium n (genitive opiī or opī); second declension

      1. opium, poppy-juice
        • 2021 June 11, rozalinda (uploader), chapter 111111, in Scribd, contains some Latin and Albanian translations:
          Multa venēna ut coffēinum, opium, morphīnum sunt
          There are many poisons like caffeine, opium and morphine

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      Second-declension noun (neuter).

      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).

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      • “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.

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

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      opium m (definite singular opiumen, uncountable)

      1. opium

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

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

      1. opium

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      opium n (uncountable)

      1. Alternative form of opiu

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      opium c

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

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      Declension of opium
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite opium opiums
      definite opiet opiets
      plural indefinite — —
      definite — —

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