cannabis
See also: Cannabis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cannabis (“hemp”), from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more. Doublet of canvas and hemp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkænəbɪs/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
cannabis (countable and uncountable, plural cannabises)
Cannabis sativa
- A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
- Synonyms: hemp, marijuana
- Hyponyms: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, Cannabis ruderalis
- A mildly euphoriant or sedating, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.
- Synonyms: 420, bhang, bud, dope, draw, ganja, grass, herb, leaf, marijuana, pot, puff, string, reefer, skunk, THC, weed
- The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.
Derived terms
- cannabidiol
- cannabinoid
- cannabinol
Descendants
- → Irish: cannabas
- → Welsh: canabis
Translations
plant
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marijuana — see marijuana
See also
- Appendix:Cannabis slang
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάννᾰβῐς (kánnabis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.naːˌbɪs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: can‧na‧bis
Noun
cannabis f (uncountable)
- cannabis, plant of the genus Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica
- Synonyms: cannabisplant, hennep, hennepplant, wietplant
- cannabis, a drug made from parts of this plant
- Synonyms: hennep, wiet
Derived terms
- cannabisdetaillist
- cannabisgebruiker
- cannabisolie
- cannabisplant
- cannabisproduct
- cannabist
Related terms
- canvas
- hennep
Descendants
- → Indonesian: kanabis
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cannabis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Doublet of chanvre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.na.bis/
Audio (file)
Noun
cannabis m (uncountable)
- cannabis
Further reading
- “cannabis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more.
Alternative forms
- cannaba, cannabum, cannabus, canapa, canapis, canapus, canava, canva (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]
Noun
cannabis f (genitive cannabis); third declension
- hemp
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cannabis | cannabēs |
| Genitive | cannabis | cannabium |
| Dative | cannabī | cannabibus |
| Accusative | cannabim | cannabēs cannabīs |
| Ablative | cannabe cannabī | cannabibus |
| Vocative | cannabis | cannabēs |
Derived terms
- cannabius
Descendants
- ⇒ Late Latin: cannabum, cannabus
- Asturian: cáñamu
- Catalan: cànem
- Galician: cánabo (“hemp, hemp fiber”)
- Occitan: cambe, carbe
- Old Portuguese: cánamo, cánabo
- Spanish: cáñamo
- → Portuguese: cânhamo
- Sardinian: cànnabu, càgnu
- Sicilian: cànnavu, cànnamu
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: canapa
- → Albanian: kërp
- Aromanian: cãnipã
- Friulian: cjanaipe, čhanaipe
- Italian: canapa
- Megleno-Romanian: cǫnipă
- Romanian: cânepă, cânipă
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: canapis, canapus
- ⇒ Dalmatian: canapial (“cord”)
- ⇒ Late Latin: canava
- French: chanvre
- Norman: cannevi
- Portuguese: cânave
- Romansch: chanv, chonv, coniv, tgonev
- Sicilian: cànnava
- Venetian: caneva
- → Catalan: cànnabis
- → Dutch: cannabis
- → English: cannabis
- → Irish: cannabas
- → French: cannabis
- → German: Cannabis
- → Galician: cánnabis
- → Greek: κάνναβη (kánnavi) (or directly from Ancient Greek)
- → Irish: cnáib
- → Italian: cannabis
- → Norman: cannabis
- → Occitan: canabís,
- → Portuguese: canábis, cânabis
- → Romanian: canabis
- → Spanish: cannabis
- → Swedish: cannabis
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na.biːs/, [ˈkänːäbiːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]
Noun
cannabīs
- dative/ablative plural of cannabum
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na.biːs/, [ˈkänːäbiːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.na.bis/, [ˈkänːäbis]
Noun
cannabīs
- dative/ablative plural of cannaba
References
- “cannabis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cannabis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).
Noun
cannabis m (uncountable)
- (Jersey) cannabis
Spanish
Alternative forms
- cánnabis
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See also cáñamo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kanˈnabis/ [kãnˈna.β̞is]
- Syllabification: can‧na‧bis
- IPA(key): /kaˈnabis/ [kaˈna.β̞is]
- Rhymes: -abis
Noun
cannabis m (uncountable)
- cannabis
See also
- hierba
- marihuana
- mota
Further reading
- “cannabis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cannabis.
Noun
cannabis c
- cannabis; Cannabis sativa
- cannabis; a recreational drug
Declension
| Declension of cannabis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | cannabis | cannabisen | — | — |
| Genitive | cannabis | cannabisens | — | — |