opium

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈəʊ.pi.əm/    美 /ˈoʊ.pi.əm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. uncountable
    — From hence we firſt ſailed to Achin, in the iſland of Sumatra, and then to Siam, where we bartered our wares for ſome arrack and opium, the laſt of which bore a great price among the Chineſe:[…]
  2. Anything that numbs or stupefies. broadly,countable
    — Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, […] It is the opium of the people.
    A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

词形变化

opiums plural opia plural

词汇关系

近义词
aunti/aunti Emma big O chandu Chinese tobacco dopium dream gun dream stick fi-do-nie gee God's medicine gondola goric guma hop/hops meconium midnight oil mud ope pen yan pin gon pox skee toxy when-shee yen ze zero
上位词
drug opiate opioid recreational drug
下位词
Dover's powder high-hat laudanum yen pok
衍生词
antiopium antiopiumist copium hopium lanthopine lettuce opium opianine opiomania opiorphin opium alkaloid opium den opium-eater opium-eating opiumism opiumist opium lamp opiumlike opium pillow opium pipe opium poppy Opium War wine of opium

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós
Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
Latin opiumbor.
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Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion)bor.
English opium
Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον (ópion), from ὀπός (opós, “juice of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷós (“juice, resin”).
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