opium
English
/ˈoʊpi.əm/, /ˈəʊpi.əm/
noun
Definitions
- (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.
- (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin opium borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (poppy juice, opium) derived from Proto-Indo-European *swokʷos (resin, juice).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*swokʷos
Gloss
resin, juice
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiopium English
- lanthopine English
- nonopioid English
- opianine English
- opioid English
- opioidergic English
- opioidlike English
- opiumism English
- opiumist English
- opiumlike English
- opium Latin
- ópium Hungarian
- oppio Italian
- опиум Russian
- opio Spanish, Castilian
- ὀπός Ancient Greek
- ὄπιον Ancient Greek
- *swokʷos Proto-Indo-European
- opium Norwegian Bokmål
- opium Norwegian Nynorsk
- أفيون Arabic
- أَفْيُون Arabic
- أَفْيُون Arabic
- opi Catalan, Valencian
- ópíum Icelandic
- opiu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- افیون Persian
- όπιο Greek (modern)
- opium Middle Dutch
- ափիոն Old Armenian
- opyum Tagalog
- ოპიუმი Georgian
- 阿片 Chinese
- 鴉片 Chinese
- opiem̧ Marshallese
- wōpiem̧ Marshallese
- اپيم Pashto, Pushto
- اپين Pashto, Pushto