FromLatinantidotum, fromAncient Greekἀντίδοτος(antídotos,“antidote, remedy”), fromἀντιδίδωμι(antidídōmi,“I give in return, repay”), fromἀντί(antí,“against”) +δίδωμι(dídōmi,“I give”). CompareFrenchantidote.
antidote (pluralantidotes)
- Aremedy tocounteract the effects ofpoison.
- Synonyms:mithridatic,alexipharmic,alexipharmac,alexipharmacum,alexiteric,alexitery,treacle,theriac
She reached the hospital in time to receive theantidote for the snake venom.
c.1606 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene iii],page149, column 2:Can'ſt thou not Miniſter to a minde diſeas'd, / Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the Braine, / And with ſome ſweet ObliuiousAntidote / Cleanſe the ſtufft boſome, of that perillous ſtuffe / Which weighes vpon the heart?
2014 December 23,Olivia Judson, “The hemiparasite season”, inThe New York Times[1]:The druids[…] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was anantidote to all poisons.
- (figurative) Something that counteracts orprevents somethingharmful.
- Synonym:remedy
We need anantidote for this misinformation.
In reference to the specific poison the antidote is protective against, used with the prepositionsagainst orfor or used with an explanatory infinitive verb.
remedy to counteract a poison
- Albanian:antidot m
- Arabic:تِرْيَاق (ar) m(tiryāq)
- Armenian:հակաթույն (hy)(hakatʻuyn)
- Azerbaijani:padzəhər
- Belarusian:проціатру́та f(prociatrúta),проція́ддзе n(procijáddzje),супрацья́ддзе n(supracʹjáddzje),антыдо́т m(antydót)
- Bulgarian:противоотро́ва (bg) f(protivootróva)
- Catalan:antídot (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:解藥 /解药 (zh)(jiěyào),解毒藥 /解毒药 (zh)(jiědúyào),解毒劑 /解毒剂 (zh)(jiědújì)
- Czech:protijed (cs) m,protilátka (cs) f
- Danish:modgift c
- Dutch:tegengif (nl) n
- Esperanto:antidoto,kontraŭveneno
- Estonian:vastumürk
- Faroese:andeitur n,móteitur n
- Finnish:vastalääke,vastamyrkky (fi)
- French:antidote (fr) m,contrepoison (fr) m,alexipharmaque (fr) m,thériaque (fr) f
- Georgian:შხამსაწინააღმდეგო(šxamsac̣inaaɣmdego),ანტიდოტი(anṭidoṭi)
- German:Gegenmittel (de) n,Gegengift (de) n
- Greek:αντίδοτο (el) n(antídoto)
- Ancient:ἀντίδοτος f(antídotos),θηριακή f(thēriakḗ),ἀλκτήριον n(alktḗrion),ἀλεξιφάρμακον n(alexiphármakon)
- Hindi:मारक (hi) m(mārak),प्रतिकारक (hi) m(pratikārak)
- Hungarian:ellenméreg (hu),ellenszer (hu)
- Ido:antidoto (io)
- Indonesian:antidot (id),antidotum
- Irish:frithnimh f,nimhíoc f
- Italian:antidoto (it)
- Japanese:解毒剤 (ja)(げどくざい, gedokuzai),解毒薬 (ja)(げどくやく, gedokuyaku)
- Kashubian:procëmtrëcëzna f
- Kazakh:уыт(uyt),у басатын(u basatyn),у қайтаратын(u qaitaratyn),у қайтарғыш(u qaitarğyş)
- Korean:해독제 (ko)(haedokje),해독약(haedogyak)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish:jehrkuj f
- Latin:antidotum n
- Latvian:pretinde f
- Lithuanian:priešnuodis m
- Macedonian:противотров m(protivotrov)
- Malay:antidot
- Maori:rongoā whakanoa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:motgift m orf
- Nynorsk:motgift f
- Persian:پادزهر (fa)(pâdzahr)
- Polish:antidotum (pl) n,odtrutka (pl) f,antydot (pl) m(dated)
- Portuguese:antídoto (pt)
- Russian:противоя́дие (ru) n(protivojádije),антидо́т (ru) m(antidót)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:про̏туотров m,противотров m
- Roman:prȍtuotrov (sh) m,protivotrov (sh) m
- Slovak:protijed m,protiliek m
- Slovene:protisredstvo n
- Spanish:antídoto (es) m
- Swedish:motgift (sv) n,antidot n
- Tajik:подзаҳр(podzahr),давои зидди заҳр(davo-yi zidd-i zahr)
- Turkish:panzehir (tr)
- Ukrainian:протиотру́та f(protyotrúta),антидо́т m(antydót)
- Vietnamese:chất giải độc
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something that counteracts
antidote (third-person singular simple presentantidotes,present participleantidoting,simple past and past participleantidoted)
- (transitive) Tocounteract as an antidote.
2007, Suzanne C. Lawton, Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman,Asperger syndrome: natural steps toward a better life, page143:For his part, the patient must avoid some commonplace substances in order to avoidantidoting or stopping the action of the homeopathic remedy[…]
to counteract as an antidote
Borrowed fromLatinantidotum.
antidote m (pluralantidotes)
- antidote
antidote
- inflection ofantidotar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
