codeine

codeine

See also: codéine, codéiné, and codeïne

English

Chemical structure of codeine

Etymology

From French codéine, from Ancient Greek κώδεια (kṓdeia, “capsule of the poppy, poppy head”) +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.diːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊˌdiːn/

Noun

codeine (countable and uncountable, plural codeines)

1. (pharmacology) An addictive alkaloid narcotic derived from opium and used as a hypnotic, analgesic and antitussive; often mixed with aspirin etc.

Related terms

• morphine

Translations

addictive alkaloid narcotic

Chinese: Mandarin: 可待因 (zh) (kědàiyīn) Danish: kodein n Esperanto: kodeino Finnish: kodeiini (fi) French: codéine (fr) f Galician: codeína f German: Kodein (de) n, Codein (de) n Greek: κωδεΐνη (el) f (kodeḯni) Hungarian: kodein (hu) Ido: kodeino (io) Italian: codeina (it) f Japanese: コデイン (kodein) Norwegian: Bokmål: kodein n Nynorsk: kodein n Polish: kodeina (pl) f Portuguese: codeína f Russian: кодеи́н (ru) m (kodeín) Spanish: codeína f Swedish: kodein (sv) Turkish: kodein (tr)

References

• “codeine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “codeine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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Italian

Noun

codeine f

1. plural of codeina

Anagrams

• edenico