morphine

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɔrfiːn/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Morpheus the god of dreams.

Noun

morphine (uncountable)

1. A crystalline alkaloid (7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-morphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:recreational drug

See also

• codeine
• heroin

Translations

crystalline alkaloid

• Arabic: مورفين (ar) (murfiin) m
• Asturian: morfina (ast) f
• Basque: morfina (eu)
• Catalan: morfina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嗎啡 (cmn), 吗啡 (cmn) (mǎfēi)

• Czech: morfin (cs) m, morfium (cs) n
• Esperanto: morfino (eo)
• Estonian: morfiin (et)
• Faroese: morfin (fo) n
• Finnish: morfiini (fi)
• French: morphine (fr) f
• Galician: morfina (gl) f
• German: Morphin (de) n, Morphium (de) n
• Hungarian: morfin (hu)
• Icelandic: morfín (is) n

• Ido: morfino (io)
• Indonesian: morfina (id)
• Italian: morfina (it) f
• Japanese: モルヒネ (ja) (moruhine)
• Korean: 모르핀 (ko) (moreupin)
• Malay: morfina (ms)
• Norwegian: morfin (no)
• Occitan: morfina (oc) f
• Polish: morfina (pl) f
• Portuguese: morfina (pt) f
• Russian: морфий (ru) (mórfij) m 
• Spanish: morfina (es) f
• Swedish: morfin (sv)
• Turkish: morfin (tr)
• Vietnamese: mocfin (vi)

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Noun

morphine f (usually uncountable)

1. morphine

References

• “morphine” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).