See also: ópium, ópíum, and Opium

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

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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.

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opium n

  1. opium

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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈoː.pi.ʏm/
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  • Hyphenation: opi‧um

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opium n or m (uncountable)

  1. opium
    Synonym: amfioen

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

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opium m (plural opiums)

  1. opium

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

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

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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.

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

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opium n (genitive opiī or opī); second declension

  1. opium, poppy-juice

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative opium opia
Genitive opiī
opī1
opiōrum
Dative opiō opiīs
Accusative opium opia
Ablative opiō opiīs
Vocative opium opia

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

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  • 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

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

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opium m (definite singular opiumen, uncountable)

  1. opium

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

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

  1. opium

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opium n (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of opiu

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opium c

  1. opium (a drug)
    Religionen är ett opium för folket.
    Religion is the opium of the people. (Karl Marx)

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Declension of opium 
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Indefinite Definite
Nominative opium opiet
Genitive opiums opiets

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