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opium

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See also: ópium, ópíum, and Opium

English

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós
Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
Latin opiumbor.
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Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
English opium

    Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós (“juice, resin”).

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    opium (countable and uncountable, plural opiums or opia)

    2. (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium
      • 1777, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 7th edition, London: […] S. Crowder, […]; J. Sewell, […]; W. Johnston, […]; and B. Law, […], →OCLC, page 277:
        From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe: […]
      • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 169:
        Opium is largely used by the Chinese as a sexual provocation, both by men and women.
      • 2026 January 27, obongommunism, Instagram‎[3], depicts the speaker as U.S. President Donald Trump as a Han dynasty emperor:
        When Zhang Jiao and his Yellow Turbans send their peasants, they're not sending their best. They're sending peasants with lots of problems and the peasants bring their problems across the Yangtze. They're bringing opium, they're bandits. And some, I assume, are good people.
    3. (by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.

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    1. ^ Szigetvári, Peter; Lindsey, Geoff (2013–2022), “opium”, in Current British English: searchable transcriptions (CUBE)‎[1]
    2. ^ Walker, John (1791), “Opium”, in A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: G. G. J. and J. Robinſon […] and T. Cadell, →OCLC, page 369.
    3. ^ Michaelis, Hermann; Jones, Daniel (1913), “'oupjəm”, in A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language (Sammlung Phonetischer Wörterbücher; 2)‎[2], Hanover: Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior), →OCLC, page 308.

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    opium n

    1. opium

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    Declension of opium (semisoft neuter foreign)
    singular plural
    nominative opium opia
    genitive opia opií
    dative opiu opiím
    accusative opium opia
    vocative opium opia
    locative opiu opiích
    instrumental opiem opii

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    Etymology

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    Via Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion).

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    opium n or c

    1. opium
      1. (by extension) activity that is stimulating and exiting

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    Declension of opium
    common
    gender     		singular
    indefinite definite
    nominative opium opiummen
    opiummet
    genitive opiums opiummens
    opiummets

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    Dutch

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    Etymology

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    From Middle Dutch opium, from Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós).

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    • IPA(key): /ˈoː.pi.ʏm/
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    • Hyphenation: opi‧um

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    opium n or m (uncountable, no diminutive)

    1. opium
      Synonym: amfioen

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    • Afrikaans: opium
    • → Indonesian: opium
    • → West Frisian: opium

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    opium m (plural opiums)

    1. opium

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    Indonesian

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    Etymology

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    From Dutch opium, from Middle Dutch opium, from Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion). Doublet of apiun.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɔpiʊm/
    • Hyphenation: opi‧um
    • Rhymes: -ʊm, -m

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    opium (plural opium-opium)

    1. opium: a yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine
      Synonyms: apiun, candu, madat

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    Latin

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      Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷos (“juice, resin”).

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      opium n (genitive opiī or opī); second declension

      1. opium, poppy-juice
        • 2021 June 11, rozalinda (uploader), chapter 111111, in Scribd, contains some Latin and Albanian translations:
          Multa venēna ut coffēinum, opium, morphīnum sunt remedia.
          Many poisons like caffeine, opium and morphine are remedies.

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      Second-declension noun (neuter).

      singular plural
      nominative opium opia
      genitive opiī
      opī1       		opiōrum
      dative opiō opiīs
      accusative opium opia
      ablative opiō opiīs
      vocative opium opia

      1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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      • “opium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “opium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

      Norwegian Bokmål

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      Etymology

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      From Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion).

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      opium m (definite singular opiumen, uncountable)

      1. opium

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      Norwegian Nynorsk

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      Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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      From Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion).

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      opium n or m (definite singular opiumet or opiumen, uncountable)

      1. opium

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      Romanian

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      Noun

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      opium n (uncountable)

      1. alternative form of opiu

      Swedish

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      Noun

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      opium c

      1. opium (a drug)
        Religionen är ett opium för folket.
        Religion is the opium of the people. (Karl Marx)

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      Declension of opium
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite opium opiums
      definite opiet opiets
      plural indefinite — —
      definite — —

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