laudanum

Coined by Paracelsus for a tincture he made containing opium, from New Latin, from Latin laudō (“I praise”), or ladanum (“a gum resin”), from Ancient Greek λάδανον (ládanon). Originally the same word as ladanum, labdanum, compare French laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. See ladanum.

laudanum (usually uncountable, plural laudanums)

1. A tincture of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.

• Dutchman's laudanum

laudanum (third-person singular simple present laudanums, present participle laudanuming, simple past and past participle laudanumed)

1. (transitive) To add laudanum to (a drink or the like).
2. (rare) To cause (a person) to be high on laudanum.

• laudanum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “laudanum” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

laudanum n

1. laudanum (tincture of opium)

• IPA^(key): /lo.da.nɔm/

laudanum m (usually uncountable, plural laudanums)

1. laudanum

• “laudanum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.da.num/, [ˈɫau̯.da.nʊ̃]

laudanum n (genitive laudanī); second declension

1. laudanum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• laudanum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)