nicotine

English

structure of nicotine

Alternative forms

• nicotin (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

French Nicot

French -in

French -e

French -ine

French nicotinebor.

English nicotine

Borrowed from French nicotine, equivalent to Nicot +‎ -ine, named after Jean Nicot (1530–1604), the French ambassador to Portugal, who sent tobacco seeds back to France in 1561. The etymology of the surname itself is unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪkətiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

nicotine (uncountable)

2. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid (C₁₀H₁₄N₂), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant.

   She is addicted to nicotine.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 165:

     The nicotine in tobacco has been held to produce anaphrodisiac effects, in spite of such literary commendation as J.M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine.

   • 2004 April 13, Nick Paton Walsh, “Ample Alyona shakes up Russian pageant”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The website calls a vote for Alyona a vote against "beauties who do not look natural and who cannot be distinguished from each other" and rails against the "imposed standards" of 90-60-90 vital statistics, and "cigarettes with out nicotine and coffee without caffeine".

3. (figuratively) Tobacco or cigarettes.

   He's got nicotine stains on his fingers.

Derived terms

• antinicotine
• conicotine
• denicotinized
• isonicotine
• niceverine
• -nicline
• nicotiana
• nicotinal
• nicotinamide
• nicotine alkaloid
• nicotinean
• nicotined
• nicotine gum
• nicotineless
• nicotinelike
• nicotine patch
• nicotine polacrilex
• nicotine pouch
• nicotinergic
• nicotine stomatitis
• nicotini
• nicotinian
• nicotinic
• nicotinism
• nicotinist
• nicotinize
• nicotinoid
• nornicotine

Translations

addictive alkaloid derived from tobacco

• Albanian: nikotinë (sq) f
• Arabic: نِيكُوتِين (ar) m (nikutīn)
• Armenian: նիկոտին (hy) (nikotin)
• Azerbaijani: nikotin
• Belarusian: нікаці́н m (nikacín), нікаты́н m (nikatýn)
• Bengali: নিকোটিন (nikōṭin)
• Bulgarian: никоти́н (bg) m (nikotín)
• Burmese: နီကိုတင်း (nikuitang:)
• Catalan: nicotina (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏂᎪᏘᏂ (nigotini)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 尼古丁 (nei⁴ gu² ding¹), 煙鹼 / 烟碱 (jin¹ gaan²)

  Mandarin: 尼古丁 (zh) (nígǔdīng), 煙鹼 / 烟碱 (zh) (yānjiǎn)

• Czech: nikotin (cs) m
• Danish: nikotin (da) c or n
• Dutch: nicotine (nl) f
• Esperanto: nikotino
• Estonian: nikotiin
• Finnish: nikotiini (fi)
• French: nicotine (fr) f
• Friulian: nicotine f
• Galician: nicotina f
• Georgian: ნიკოტინი (niḳoṭini)
• German: Nikotin (de) n
• Greek: νικοτίνη (el) (nikotíni)
• Hebrew: נִיקוֹטִין (he) m (nikotín)
• Hindi: निकोटीन f (nikoṭīn), ताम्रकूटी f (tāmrakūṭī)
• Hungarian: nikotin (hu)
• Icelandic: nikótín (is) n
• Ido: nikotino (io)
• Indonesian: nikotin (id)
• Irish: nicitín m
• Italian: nicotina (it) f
• Japanese: ニコチン (ja) (nikochin)
• Kazakh: никотин (nikotin)
• Khmer: និកូត៍រស (nikourŭəh), នីកូទីន (niikoutiin)
• Korean: 니코틴 (nikotin)
• Kyrgyz: никотин (nikotin)
• Latin: nicotinum n
• Latvian: nikotīns m
• Lithuanian: nikotinas m
• Macedonian: никоти́н m (nikotín)
• Malay: nikotin
• Māori: nikotini
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: никотин (nikotin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nikotin (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: nikotin m or n

• Occitan: nicotina f
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: نیکوتین (fa) (nikotin)

• Piedmontese: nicotin-a f
• Polish: nikotyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: nicotina (pt) f
• Romanian: nicotină (ro) f
• Russian: никоти́н (ru) m (nikotín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нико̀тӣн m

  Latin: nikòtīn (sh) m

• Slovak: nikotín m
• Slovene: nikotin (sl) m
• Spanish: nicotina (es) f
• Swahili: nikotin (sw)
• Swedish: nikotin (sv) n or c
• Tagalog: nikotina
• Tajik: никотин (nikotin)
• Thai: นิโคติน (ní-koo-dtin)
• Turkish: nikotin (tr)
• Turkmen: nikotin
• Ukrainian: нікоти́н m (nikotýn)
• Urdu: نِکوٹِین f (nikoṭīn)
• Uyghur: نىكوتىن (nikotin)
• Uzbek: nikotin (uz)
• Vietnamese: nicotin, nhựa thuốc, nicôtin
• Volapük: nikotin (vo)
• Welsh: nicotîn

Anagrams

• conitine, cotinine

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French nicotine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌni.koːˈti.nə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ni‧co‧ti‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

nicotine f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. nicotine (C₁₀H₁₄N₂, alkaloid)

Derived terms

• nicotinearm
• nicotinekauwgom
• nicotinepleister
• nicotinevrij

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

French Nicot

French -in

French -e

French -ine

French nicotine

Named after French diplomat Jean Nicot (1530–1604).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.kɔ.tin/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

nicotine f (uncountable)

1. nicotine (alkaloid)

Descendants

• → Catalan: nicotina
• → Czech: nikotin
• → Danish: nikotin
• → Dutch: nicotine
• → English: nicotine
• → German: Nikotin
• → Norwegian Bokmål: nikotin
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: nikotin
• → Portuguese: nicotina
• → Spanish: nicotina
• → Swedish: nikotin

Further reading

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

Friulian

Noun

nicotine f (plural -)

1. nicotine

Italian

Noun

nicotine f

1. plural of nicotina

Anagrams

• contieni