suppository

English

Etymology

From Middle English suppositorie, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin suppositorium, from Late Latin, neuter of suppositorius (“placed beneath”), from Latin supponere (“to put under”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /səˈpɒzɪtəɹi/
(General American) enPR: sə-päzʹĭ-tôr'ē, IPA^(key): /səˈpɑzɪˌtɔɹi/

Noun

suppository (plural suppositories)

(medicine) A medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity, especially the rectum, vagina or urethra, where it melts at body temperature.
- 1976, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 372:
  He's smoother than a suppository, only his suppositories contain dynamite.

Translations

medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity

Arabic: لَبُوس‎ m (labūs)
Bulgarian: свещичка f (sveštička)
Catalan: supositori (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 栓劑／栓剂 (zh) (shuānjì)
Czech: čípek (cs) m
Danish: stikpille (da) c
Dutch: zetpil (nl) f, suppositoir m, suppo (nl) m
Egyptian:

(mt f)
Finnish: suppo (fi), suppositorio (fi), peräpuikko (fi)
French: suppositoire (fr) m
German: Zäpfchen (de) n
Greek: υπόθετο (el) n (ypótheto)
Hungarian: kúp (hu), végbélkúp (hu)
Icelandic: stíll m, stikkpilla f
Irish: sopastóir m
Italian: supposta (it)
Japanese: (general) 坐薬 (ja) (zayaku), (formal) 坐剤 (ja) (zazai)
Korean: 좌약 (jwayak)
Lithuanian: žvakùtė f
Persian: شیاف‎ (fa) (šiâf)
Polish: czopek (pl) m
Portuguese: supositório m
Russian: суппозиторий (ru) m (suppozitorij), свеча́ (ru) f (svečá)
Slovak: čapík m
Spanish: supositorio (es) m, cala (es) f
Swedish: stolpiller (sv)
Turkish: fitil (tr)