opiate

See also: Opiate

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Medieval Latin opiatus.

Pronunciation

• • (adjective, noun) enPR: ōʹpē-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpi.ət/
  • (verb) enPR: ōʹpē-āt', IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpiˌeɪt/
• • (adjective, noun) enPR: ōʹpē-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈoʊpi.ət/
  • (verb) enPR: ōʹpē-āt, IPA^(key): /ˌoʊpieɪt/

Adjective

opiate (not comparable)

1. Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
2. Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
3. Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.

Noun

opiate (plural opiates)

1. A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
2. Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
   • (Can we date this quote by Bentley and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     They chose atheism as an opiate.

Hypernyms

• opioid

Translations

drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium

• Arabic: أفيوني ('afyuni)
• Armenian: օպիատներ (hy) pl (ōpiatner)
• Basque: opiazeo
• Bulgarian: опиат (bg) m (opiat)
• Catalan: opiaci m
• Chinese:

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• Czech: opiát m
• Danish: opiat c
• Dutch: opiaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: opiaĵo
• Finnish: opiaatti (fi)
• French: opiacé (fr) m
• Georgian: ოპიატე (oṗiaṭe)
• German: Opiat (de) n
• Greek: οπιούχο (el) n (opioúcho), οπιοειδές n (opioeidés)
• Hungarian: ópiát (hu)
• Icelandic: ópíöt m
• Indonesian: madat (id)
• Italian: oppiaceo (it) m, oppiato (it) m
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• Japanese: オピエート (opiēto)
• Korean: 아편제 (apyeonje)
• Lithuanian: opiatas m
• Manx: cadleenag f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: opiat n

  Nynorsk: opiat n

• Occitan: opiacèu m
• Portuguese: opiáceo m
• Romanian: opiaceu (ro) n
• Russian: опиа́т (ru) m (opiát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опѝја̄т m

  Roman: opìjāt (sh) m

• Slovene: opiat m
• Spanish: opiato m
• Swedish: opiat (sv) c
• Thai: โอปิแอต (oh-bpì-àet)
• Ukrainian: опіат m (opiat)

Verb

1. (transitive) To treat with an opiate drug.

See also

• codeine
• morphine
• papaverine
• thebaine

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) opiāte

1. vocative masculine singular of opiātus

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Lithuanian

Noun

opiate m

1. locative singular of opiatas
2. vocative singular of opiatas