antidote

See also: Antidote

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Latin antidotum, from Ancient Greek ἀντίδοτον (antídoton), neuter of ἀντίδοτος (antídotos, “given as a remedy for”), from ἀντιδίδωμι (antidídōmi, “I give in return, repay”), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + δίδωμι (dídōmi, “I give”). Compare French antidote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə.dot/

Noun

antidote (plural antidotes)

1. A remedy to counteract the effects of poison (often followed by "against," "for," or "to").

   She reached the hospital in time to receive the antidote for the snake venom.

   • 2014 December 23, Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season [print version: Under the hemiparasite, International New York Times, 24–25 December 2014, p. 7]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.

2. (figurative) Something that counteracts or prevents something harmful.

   We need an antidote for this misinformation.

Related terms

• antidotal
• antidotic
• antidotically

Translations

remedy to counteract a poison

• Arabic: تِرْيَاق m (tiryāq)
• Belarusian: проціатру́та f (prociatrúta), проція́ддзе n (procijáddzje), супрацья́ддзе n (supracʹjáddzje), антыдо́т m (antydót)
• Bulgarian: противоотрова (bg) (protivootrova)
• Catalan: antídot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解藥／解药 (zh) (jiěyào), 解药 (zh) (jiěyào), 解毒藥／解毒药 (zh) (jiědúyào), 解毒药 (zh) (jiědúyào), 解毒劑／解毒剂 (zh), 解毒剂 (zh) (jiědújì)

• Czech: protijed m, protilátka (cs) f
• Danish: modgift c
• Dutch: tegengif (nl) n
• Esperanto: antidoto, kontraŭveneno
• Faroese: andeitur n, móteitur n
• Finnish: vastalääke
• French: alexipharmaque (fr) m, antidote (fr), contrepoison (fr) m
• German: Gegenmittel (de) n, Gegengift (de) f
• Greek: αντίδοτο (el) n (antídoto)

  Ancient Greek: ἀντίδοτος f (antídotos), ἀλκτήριον n (alktḗrion)

• Hungarian: ellenméreg (hu), ellenszer (hu)
• Ido: antidoto (io)
• Interlingue: ,
• Irish: frithnimh f, nimhíoc f
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• Italian: antidoto (it)
• Japanese: 解毒剤 (げどくざい, gedokuzai), 解毒薬 (げどくやく, gedokuyaku)
• Kashubian: procëmtrëcëzna f
• Kazakh: уыт (uyt)
• Korean: 해독제 (ko) (haedokje), 해독약 (haedogyak)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: antidotum n
• Macedonian: противотров m (protivotrov)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motgift m or f

  Nynorsk: motgift f

• Polish: antidotum (pl) n, odtrutka (pl) f
• Portuguese: antídoto (pt)
• Russian: противоя́дие (ru) n (protivojádije), антидо́т (ru) m (antidót)
• Slovene: protisredstvo n
• Spanish: antídoto m
• Swedish: motgift (sv) n, antidot n
• Turkish: panzehir (tr)
• Ukrainian: протиотру́та f (protyotrúta), антидо́т m (antydót)
• Vietnamese: chất giải độc

something that counteracts

• Catalan: antídot (ca) m
• Dutch: tegengif (nl) n
• Finnish: vastamyrkky (fi), vastalääke
• German: Gegenmittel (de) n
• Greek: αντίδοτο (el) n (antídoto)

  Ancient:

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• Hungarian: ellenszer (hu)
• Irish: leigheas m
• Persian: پادزهر (fa) (pâdzahr)
• Portuguese: antídoto (pt) m

Verb

1. (transitive) To counteract as an antidote.
   • 2007, Suzanne C. Lawton, Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman, Asperger syndrome: natural steps toward a better life (page 143)

     For his part, the patient must avoid some commonplace substances in order to avoid antidoting or stopping the action of the homeopathic remedy […]

Translations

to counteract as an antidote

• Portuguese: antidotar
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See also

• theriac

References

• “antidote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tetanoid

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin antidotum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.dɔt/

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Noun

antidote m (plural antidotes)

1. antidote

Further reading

• “antidote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• détonait
• dotaient