codeine

See also: codéine, codéiné, and codeïne

English

Chemical structure of codeine

Etymology

From French codéine, from Ancient Greek κώδεια (kṓdeia, “capsule of the poppy, poppy head”) +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.diːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊˌdiːn/

Noun

codeine (countable and uncountable, plural codeines)

1. (pharmacology) An addictive alkaloid narcotic derived from opium and used as a hypnotic, analgesic and antitussive; often mixed with aspirin etc.

Related terms

• morphine

Translations

addictive alkaloid narcotic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可待因 (zh) (kědàiyīn)

• Danish: kodein n
• Esperanto: kodeino
• Finnish: kodeiini (fi)
• French: codéine (fr) f
• Galician: codeína f
• German: Kodein (de) n, Codein (de) n
• Greek: κωδεΐνη (el) f (kodeḯni)
• Hungarian: kodein (hu)
• Ido: kodeino (io)
• Italian: codeina (it) f
• Japanese: コデイン (kodein)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kodein n

  Nynorsk: kodein n

• Polish: kodeina (pl) f
• Portuguese: codeína f
• Romanian: codeină (ro) f
• Russian: кодеи́н (ru) m (kodeín)
• Spanish: codeína f
• Swedish: kodein (sv)
• Turkish: kodein (tr)

References

• “codeine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “codeine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Italian

Noun

codeine f

1. plural of codeina

Anagrams

• edenico