eliksir

Danish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin elixir, from Arabic اَلْإِكْسِير (al-ʔiksīr), from Ancient Greek ξηρίον (xēríon, “medicinal powder”), from ξηρός (xērós, “dry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eləksiːr/, [eləɡ̊ˈsiɐ̯ˀ]

• Audio:

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Noun

eliksir c (singular definite eliksiren, plural indefinite eliksirer)

1. elixir, potion

Inflection

Declension of eliksir

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	eliksir	eliksiren	eliksirer	eliksirerne
genitive	eliksirs	eliksirens	eliksirers	eliksirernes

Synonyms

• tonikum
• vidundermiddel

Polish

Alternative forms

• eliksyr (obsolete)
• elixir (pre-reform orthography (1816))

Etymology

Etymology tree

French élixirbor.

Polish eliksir

Borrowed from French élixir. First attested in 1578.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈlik.sir/
• Rhymes: -iksir
• Syllabification: e‧lik‧sir

Noun

eliksir m inan (diminutive eliksirek)

1. (alchemy) elixir (substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life)

Declension

Declension of eliksir

	singular	plural
nominative	eliksir	eliksiry
genitive	eliksiru	eliksirów
dative	eliksirowi	eliksirom
accusative	eliksir	eliksiry
instrumental	eliksirem	eliksirami
locative	eliksirze	eliksirach
vocative	eliksirze	eliksiry

Derived terms

nouns

• eliksir młodości
• eliksir życia

Further reading

• “eliksir”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “eliksir”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “elixir”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “eliksyr”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “eliksir”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 690

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /elǐksiːr/
• Hyphenation: e‧li‧ksir

Noun

elìksīr m inan (Cyrillic spelling елѝксӣр)

1. elixir

Declension

Declension of eliksir

	singular	plural
nominative	elìksīr	eliksiri
genitive	eliksíra	eliksira
dative	eliksiru	eliksirima
accusative	eliksir	eliksire
vocative	eliksiru	eliksiri
locative	eliksiru	eliksirima
instrumental	eliksirom	eliksirima