opium

Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷos (“juice, resin”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊpi.əm/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpi.əm/

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opium (countable and uncountable, plural opiums or opia)

1. (uncountable) A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium

2. (by extension, countable) Anything that numbs or stupefies.
   • 1843, Karl Marx, Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie [A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right]:

     Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, […] It is the opium of the people.

• copium
• hopium
• opium poppy
• Opium War

opium n

1. opium

From Middle Dutch opium, from Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.pi.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: opi‧um

opium n or m (uncountable)

1. opium

   Synonym: amfioen

• opiaat
• opiumchinees
• opiumderivaat
• opiumextract
• opiumhandel
• opiumhol
• opiumkit
• opiumoorlog
• opiumpijp
• opiumpil
• opiumroker
• opiumschuiver
• opiumsmokkel
• opiumsmokkelaar
• opiumsmokkelarij
• opiumverslaafd
• opiumverslaafde
• opiumverslaving

• amfioen

• Afrikaans: opium
• → Indonesian: opium
• → West Frisian: opium

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.pjɔm/

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opium m (plural opiums)

1. opium

• “opium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch opium, from Middle Dutch opium, from Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion). Doublet of apiun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔpiʊm/
• Hyphenation: opi‧um
• Rhymes: -ʊm, -m

opium (plural opium-opium, first-person possessive opiumku, second-person possessive opiummu, third-person possessive opiumnya)

1. opium: a yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.

• apiun
• candu
• madat

• “opium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• opion

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷos (“juice, resin”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pi.um/, [ˈɔpiʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.pi.um/, [ˈɔːpium]

opium n (genitive opiī or opī); second declension

1. opium, poppy-juice

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “opium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

From Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion).

opium m (definite singular opiumen, uncountable)

1. opium

• opiumsvalmue

• opiat

• “opium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “opium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin opium, from Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion).

opium n or m (definite singular opiumet or opiumen, uncountable)

1. opium

• opiumsvalmue

• opiat

• “opium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

opium n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of opiu

opium c

1. opium (a drug)

   Religionen är ett opium för folket.

   Religion is the opium of the people. (Karl Marx)