opium

See also ópium, ópíum, and Opium

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (opion), from ὀπός (opos, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *swokwos (“juice, resin”).

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.
2. (countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
   • "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, . . . It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:recreational drug

Translations

drug from opium poppy

• Arabic: أفيون (ar) ('afyuun) m
• Armenian: ափիոն (hy) (ap'ion)
• Belarusian: опіюм (be) (opijum)
• Catalan: opi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鴉片 (cmn), 鸦片 (cmn) (yāpiàn), 阿片 (cmn) (āpiàn)

• Czech: opium (cs) n
• Dutch: opium (nl) m and n
• Esperanto: opio (eo)
• Finnish: oopiumi (fi)
• French: opium (fr) m
• German: Opium (de) n
• Greek: όπιο (el) (opio) n
• Hindi: अफ़ीम (hi) (afīm)
• Icelandic: ópíum (is) n
• Italian: oppio (it) m
• Japanese: 鴉片 (ja) (あへん, ahen), 阿片 (ja) (あへん, ahen)

• Korean: 아편 (ko) (阿片, apyeon)
• Lao: ຝີ່ນ (lo) (fiin)
• Lithuanian: opijus (lt) m, opiumas (lt)
• Malay: candu (ms) n
• Persian: افیون (fa) (afyūn)
• Polish: opium (pl) n
• Portuguese: ópio (pt)
• Romanian: opiu (ro) n
• Russian: опий (ru) (ópij) m, опиум (ru) (ópium) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀пијӯм (sh) m

  Roman: òpijūm (sh) m

• Spanish: opio (es) n
• Swedish: opium (sv) n
• Thai: ฝิ่น (th) (fìn)
• Turkish: afyon (tr)
• Vietnamese: thuốc phiện (vi)

anything that numbs or stupefies

• Dutch: opium (nl) m and n
• German: Opium (de) n
• Greek: όπιο (el) (opio) n
• Icelandic: ópíum (is) n

• Polish: opium (pl) n, opium dla mas (pl) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀пијӯм (sh) m

  Roman: òpijūm (sh) m

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Czech

Noun

opium n

1. opium

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Latin

Alternative forms

• opion

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄπιον (opion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈo.pi.um/

Noun

opium (genitive opiī); n, second declension

1. opium, poppy-juice

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	opium	opia
genitive	opiī	opiōrum
dative	opiō	opiīs
accusative	opium	opia
ablative	opiō	opiīs
vocative	opium	opia

Descendants

• English: opium
• Italian: oppio
• Russian: опиум

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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		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	opium	opiet
genitive	opiums	opiets

Related terms

• opiat
• opioid
• opiumalkaloid
• opiumförbrukning
• opiumhalt
• opiumhandel
• opiuminförsel
• opiumkrig
• opiummissbruk
• opiumodling
• opiumpipa
• opiumpreparat
• opiumproduktion
• opiumtinktur
• opiumvallmo