morphine

English

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morphine

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• morphin, morphina (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French morphine or German Morphin, from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús, “the god and personification of dreams”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː.fiːn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹˌfin/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.fiːn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

morphine (countable and uncountable, plural morphines)

1. (biochemistry, pharmacology) A crystalline alkaloid (7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-morphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.

Synonyms

• morphia
• See also Thesaurus:recreational drug

Derived terms

• amorphinism
• apomorphine
• benzylmorphine
• demorphinization
• demorphinize
• desomorphine
• diacetylmorphine
• dihydromorphine
• ethylmorphine
• hydromorphinol
• methyldihydromorphine
• methylmorphine
• morphinate
• morphined
• morphinelike
• morphinergic
• morphinic
• morphinism
• morphinist
• morphinization
• morphinize
• morphinomane
• morphinomania
• morphinomaniac
• morphinomimetic
• morphinone
• neomorphine
• nicomorphine
• normorphine
• paramorphine
• pseudomorphine

Translations

crystalline alkaloid

Arabic: مُورْفِين m (murfīn) Asturian: morfina f Basque: morfina Bulgarian: морфин (bg) m (morfin) Catalan: morfina (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 嗎啡 / 吗啡 (maa1 fe1) Gan: 嗎啡 / 吗啡 ('ma3 fi1) Hakka: 嗎啡 / 吗啡 (mà-fî/mò-fî) Hokkien: 嗎啡 / 吗啡, 吗啡 (mô͘-hui) Mandarin: 嗎啡 / 吗啡 (zh) (mǎfēi) Czech: morfin m, morfium n Danish: morfin (da) c Esperanto: morfino Estonian: morfiin Faroese: morfin n Finnish: morfiini (fi) French: morphine (fr) f Galician: morfina (gl) f German: Morphin (de) n, Morphium (de) n Hungarian: morfin (hu) Icelandic: morfín (is) n Ido: morfino (io) Indonesian: morfina Italian: morfina (it) f Japanese: モルヒネ (ja) (moruhine), モルフィン (morufin), モヒ (ja) (mohi) Kazakh: морфин (morfin) Khmer: ម័រហ្វីន (mɔəfiin) Korean: 모르핀 (moreupin) Malay: morfina Norwegian: Bokmål: morfin m or n Nynorsk: morfin m or n Occitan: morfina (oc) f Polish: morfina (pl) f Portuguese: morfina (pt) f Romanian: morfină (ro) f Russian: мо́рфий (ru) m (mórfij) Spanish: morfina (es) f Swedish: morfin (sv) Thai: มอร์ฟีน (th) Turkish: morfin (tr) Vietnamese: mocfin

See also

• codeine
• heroin

References

• “morphine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “morphine”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús) +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ.fin/

• Audio:

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Noun

morphine f (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry, pharmacology) morphine

References

• “morphine” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).

Further reading

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