opium
opium - English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA: /ˈoʊ.pi.əm/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈəʊ.pi.əm/
Noun
opium (countable and uncountable, plural opiums or opia)
- (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 opium
- (by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
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opium - Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈopɪjum]
Noun
opium n
Declension
opium - Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈoː.pi.ʏm/
- Hyphenation: opi‧um
Noun
opium n or m (uncountable)
Derived terms
- opiaat
- opiumchinees
- opiumderivaat
- opiumextract
- opiumhandel
- opiumhol
- opiumkit
- opiumoorlog
- opiumpijp
- opiumpil
- opiumroker
- opiumschuiver
- opiumsmokkel
- opiumsmokkelaar
- opiumsmokkelarij
- opiumverslaafd
- opiumverslaafde
- opiumverslaving
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Descendants
opium - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɔ.pjɔm/
Noun
opium m (plural opiums)
opium - Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɔpiʊm/
- Hyphenation: opi‧um
Noun
opium (plural opium-opium, first-person possessive opiumku, second-person possessive opiummu, third-person possessive opiumnya)
- 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
opium - Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA: /ˈo.pi.um/, [ˈɔpiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.pi.um/, [ˈɔːpium]
Noun
opium n (genitive opiī or opī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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).
Descendants
opium - Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
opium m (definite singular opiumen, uncountable)
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opium - Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
opium n or m (definite singular opiumet or opiumen, uncountable)
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opium - Romanian
Noun
opium n (uncountable)
- Alternative form of opiu
opium - Swedish
Noun
opium c
- opium (a drug)
- Religionen är ett opium för folket.
- Religion is the opium of the people. (Karl Marx)
Declension
Declension of opium | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | opium | opiet | — | — |
Genitive | opiums | opiets | — | — |