See also: Opiate

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK)
    • (adjective, noun) enPR: ōʹpē-ət, IPA(key): /ˈəʊpi.ət/
    • (file)
    • (verb) enPR: ōʹpē-āt', IPA(key): /ˈəʊpiˌeɪt/
    • (file)
  • (US)
    • (adjective, noun) enPR: ōʹpē-ət, IPA(key): /ˈoʊpi.ət/
    • (verb) enPR: ōʹpē-āt, IPA(key): /ˌoʊpieɪt/

Adjective edit

opiate (not comparable)

  1. (pharmacology) Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
  2. Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
  3. Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.

Noun edit

 
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opiate (plural opiates)

  1. (pharmacology) A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
  2. Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
    • 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
      They chose atheism as an opiate.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 230:
      The music—the fragrance of the flowers, whose odour was exhaling in the now falling dew—the languor of recent exertion—the sense of past dangers and present security—operated on Beatrice like the first and delicious stage of an opiate.

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Verb edit

opiate (third-person singular simple present opiates, present participle opiating, simple past and past participle opiated)

  1. (transitive) To treat with an opiate drug.

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Latin edit

Adjective edit

opiāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of opiātus

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Noun edit

opiate m

  1. locative singular of opiatas
  2. vocative singular of opiatas