FromMiddle Englishnarcotyk, fromMiddle Frenchnarcotique (fromOld Frenchnarcotique, noun use of adjective) and directly fromMedieval Latinnarcōticum, fromAncient Greekναρκωτῐκόν(narkōtĭkón), neuter ofναρκωτῐκός(narkōtĭkós), fromAncient Greekναρκόω(narkóō,“to benumb”), fromνάρκη(nárkē,“numbness, torpor”).[1]
narcotic (pluralnarcotics)
- (pharmacology) Any substance ordrug thatreducespain,inducessleep and mayaltermood orbehaviour; in some contexts, especially in reference to theopiates-and-opioids class, especially in reference to illegaldrugs, and often both.
2017 March 20, Nadia Kounang, “Prescriptions may hold clues to who gets hooked on opioids, study says”, inCNN[1]:In 2016, the CDC established guidelines for prescribingnarcotics for chronic pain.
2025 March 19, Hira Humayun and Michael Rios, “Ecuador’s president invites foreign armies to fight gangs in the country”, inCNN[2]:The State Department has given Ecuador $81 million since 2018 to help the country with its fight against organized crime andnarcotics.
- Any type of numbing or soothing drug.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, inIn Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC:But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dullnarcotics, numbing pain.
1938,Norman Lindsay,Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.:Ure Smith, published1962,→OCLC, page139:Podson grabbed at his tobacco with a fervent, "God! just about saved my life." With a cigarette going he grabbed at the papers, requiring spiritual sustenance as well as a divinenarcotic.
1992,Neal Stephenson,Snow Crash, page358:Which means that at the moment Raven entered her, a very small hypodermic needle slipped imperceptibly into the engorged frontal vein of his penis, automatically shooting a cocktail of powerfulnarcotics and depressants into his bloodstream.
class of drugs
- Arabic:مُخَدِّر m(muḵaddir)
- Armenian:թմրամիջոց (hy)(tʻmramiǰocʻ),նարկոտիկ (hy)(narkotik)
- Belarusian:нарко́тык m(narkótyk)
- Bulgarian:наркоти́к (bg) m(narkotík)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:麻醉劑 /麻醉剂 (zh)(mázuìjì)
- Crimean Tatar:narkotik
- Czech:narkotikum (cs) n
- Dutch:narcotica (nl) f,verdovende middel n
- Estonian:narkootikum,uimasti,droog
- Finnish:unilääke (fi)
- French:narcotique (fr) m
- Georgian:ნარკოტიკი(narḳoṭiḳi)
- German:Narkotikum (de) n
- Greek:ναρκωτικό (el) n(narkotikó)
- Hindi:मादक (hi) m(mādak)
- Indonesian:narkotika (id)
- Italian:narcotico (it)
- Japanese:麻薬 (ja)(まやく, mayaku)
- Kazakh:есірткі(esırtkı),есірткіш (kk)(esırtkış),еліткіш(elıtkış)
- Korean:마약(麻藥) (ko)(mayak)
- Lao:ຢາເສບຕິດ(yā sēp tit)
- Macedonian:наркотик m(narkotik)
- Malay:narkotik
- Māori:pūroi,rongoā whakarehu,whakapōauau,pōau
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian:مُخَدِّر(moxadder)
- Polish:narkotyk (pl) m
- Romanian:narcotică f
- Russian:нарко́тик (ru) m(narkótik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:нарко̀тик m
- Latin:narkòtik (sh) m
- Slovak:narkotikum (sk) n
- Spanish:estupefaciente (es) m
- Swedish:narkotika (sv) c,knark (sv) n
- Tagalog:narkotiko
- Tajik:воситаи нашъадор(vosita-yi naš'ador)
- Thai:ยาเสพติด(yaa-sèep-dtìt),สารเสพติด
- Ukrainian:нарко́тик m(narkótyk)
- Urdu:نَشَہ m(naśa)
- Uyghur:ناركوتىك(narkotik)
- Vietnamese:ma túy (vi)
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FromMiddle Frenchnarcotique orGermannarkotisch and directly fromMedieval Latinnarcōticus, fromAncient Greekναρκωτῐκός(narkōtĭkós).[2]
narcotic (comparativemorenarcotic,superlativemostnarcotic)
- Of, or relating to narcotics.
- Synonym:narcotics
- (pharmacology) Inducing sleep; causingnarcosis.
2017 March 20, Nadia Kounang, “Prescriptions may hold clues to who gets hooked on opioids, study says”, inCNN[3]:The duration of a prescription may give clues into how long a person ends up using anarcotic painkiller, a new study finds.
Borrowed fromFrenchnarcotique orGermannarkotisch.
narcotic m orn (feminine singularnarcotică,masculine pluralnarcotici,feminine/neuter pluralnarcotice)
- narcotic
- Synonym:somnifer
narcotic n (pluralnarcotice)
- narcotic
- Synonym:somnifer
