opium

Meaning

Noun

• A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
• Anything that numbs or stupefies.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin opium and Ancient Greek ὄπιον, from ὀπός, from Proto-Indo-European *swokʷos.