opium

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

• enPR: ō′pēəm:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.pi.əm/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.pi.əm/^[1][2]
  • Rhymes: -əʊpiəm

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• enPR: ōp′yəm: IPA^(key): /ˈoʊp.jəm/^[3] (now rare)

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.

3. (by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
   • 1843, Karl Marx, Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie [A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right]:

     Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, […] It is the opium of the people.

• IPA^(key): [ˈopɪjum]

opium n

1. opium

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

opium n or c

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

• “opium” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.pi.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: opi‧um

opium n or m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. opium

   Synonym: amfioen

• amfioen

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

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• IPA^(key): /ɔ.pjɔm/

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opium m (plural opiums)

1. opium

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

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

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

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

• “opium”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• opion

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.pi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.pi.um]

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.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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.

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

opium m (definite singular opiumen, uncountable)

1. opium

• opiumsvalmue

• opiat

• “opium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “opium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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

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

1. opium

• opiumsvalmue

• opiat

• “opium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

opium n (uncountable)

1. alternative form of opiu

opium c

1. opium (a drug)

   Religionen är ett opium för folket.

   Religion is the opium of the people. (Karl Marx)

• opium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• opium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• opium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)