veronal
English
Etymology
Former trade name, after the Italian city Verona.[1]
Noun
veronal (uncountable)
- A barbiturate, used formerly to induce sleep.
- Synonyms: barbital, diethylmalonyl urea, diethylbarbituric acid, barbitol
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 29, in The Moon and Sixpence:
- He was by now so worn out that he could not resist my firmness. I gave him a sufficient dose of veronal to insure his unconsciousness for several hours. I thought that was the best service I could render him.
- 1926, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:
- She died of an overdose of veronal. She's been taking it lately for sleeplessness. Must have taken too much.
Derived terms
- veronalism
Translations
barbiturate
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References
- Donald R. Wesson; David Elvin Smith (1977) Barbiturates, their use, misuse, and abuse, New York: Human Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 15: “Twenty-one years later, Emile Fischer, a student of Baeyer's who also received a Nobel Prize in chemistry, and Baron Joseph von Mering (1903) introduced barbital into clinical medicine under the trade name of Veronal—a name derived from the Italian city of Verona.”
Further reading
barbital on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Romanian
Etymology
From German Veronal or French véronal.
Noun
veronal n (uncountable)
- veronal
Declension
declension of veronal (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) veronal | veronalul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) veronal | veronalului |
| vocative | veronalule | |
Spanish
Noun
veronal m (uncountable)
- veronal
Further reading
- “veronal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014