Laudanum Definition

lôdn-əm
noun
A solution of opium in alcohol.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • tincture of opium
verb
To add laudanum to (a drink or the like).
Wiktionary

(rare) To cause (a person) to be high on laudanum.

Wiktionary

Origin of Laudanum

  • Coined by Paracelsus for a tincture he made containing opium, from New Latin, from Latin laudare (“to praise"), or ladanum (“a gum resin"), from Ancient Greek λάδανον (ladanon). Originally the same word as ladanum, ladbdanum, compare French laudanum, Italian laudano, ladano. See ladanum.

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin perhaps alteration of Medieval Latin labdanum labdanum labdanum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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