opiate

opiate

See also: Opiate

English

Etymology

From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (adjective, noun) enPR: ōʹpē-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpi.ət/

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  • (verb) enPR: ōʹpē-āt', IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpiˌeɪt/

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• (US)
  • (adjective, noun) enPR: ōʹpē-ət, IPA^(key): /ˈoʊpi.ət/
  • (verb) enPR: ōʹpē-āt, IPA^(key): /ˌoʊpieɪt/

Adjective

opiate (not comparable)

1. Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
2. (pharmacology) Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
3. Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.

Noun

opiate (plural opiates)

1. (pharmacology) A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
2. Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
   • 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:

     They chose atheism as an opiate.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 230:

     The music—the fragrance of the flowers, whose odour was exhaling in the now falling dew—the languor of recent exertion—the sense of past dangers and present security—operated on Beatrice like the first and delicious stage of an opiate.

Hypernyms

• opioid

Translations

drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium

Arabic: أَفْيُونِيّ‎ (ʾafyūniyy) Armenian: օպիատներ (hy) pl (ōpiatner) Basque: opiazeo Bulgarian: опиат (bg) m (opiat) Catalan: opiaci m Chinese: Mandarin: 鴉片製劑／鸦片制剂 (yāpiàn zhìjì) Czech: opiát m Danish: opiat c Dutch: opiaat (nl) n Esperanto: opiaĵo Finnish: opiaatti (fi) French: opiacé (fr) m Georgian: ოპიატე (oṗiaṭe) German: Opiat (de) n Greek: οπιούχο (el) n (opioúcho), οπιοειδές n (opioeidés) Hungarian: ópiát (hu) Icelandic: ópíöt m Indonesian: madat (id) Italian: oppiaceo (it) m, oppiato (it) m Japanese: オピエート (opiēto) Korean: 아편제 (apyeonje) Lithuanian: opiatas m Manx: cadleenag f Norwegian: Bokmål: opiat n Nynorsk: opiat n Occitan: opiacèu (oc) m Portuguese: opiáceo m Romanian: opiaceu (ro) n Russian: опиа́т (ru) m (opiát) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: опѝја̄т m Roman: opìjāt (sh) m Slovene: opiat m Spanish: opiato m Swedish: opiat (sv) c Thai: โอปิแอต (oh-bpì-àet) Ukrainian: опіат m (opiat)

Verb

opiate (third-person singular simple present opiates, present participle opiating, simple past and past participle opiated)

1. (transitive) To treat with an opiate drug.

See also

• codeine
• morphine
• papaverine
• thebaine

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Latin

Adjective

opiāte

1. vocative masculine singular of opiātus

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Lithuanian

Noun

opiate m

1. locative singular of opiatas
2. vocative singular of opiatas