opium
Meanings
Noun
- an addictive narcotic extracted from seed capsules of the opium poppy
- 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.
- Anything that numbs or stupefies.
Origin / Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós
Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós)
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
Latin opiumbor.
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”).
Synonyms
aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine, gondola, goric, guma, hop/hops, meconium, midnight oil, mud, ope, pen yan, pin gon, pox, skee, toxy, when-shee, yen, ze, zero
Scrabble Score: 9
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