papaverine

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin papāver

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnusder.

Old French -inbor.

Middle English -in

English -ine

English papaverine

From Latin papāver (“poppy”) + English -ine.

Noun

papaverine (countable and uncountable, plural papaverines)

1. (organic chemistry, pharmacology) A nonaddictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.

Derived terms

• cinnamaverine
• ethaverine
• moxaverine
• pinaverium
• tetrahydropapaverine
• -verine (“spasmolytic”)

Translations

pharmaceutical drug

• German: Papaverin n
• Hungarian: papaverin (hu)
• Italian: papaverina (it) f

Italian

Noun

papaverine f

1. plural of papaverina