"paregoric" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /pæɹɪˈɡɒɹɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /pɛɹɪˈɡɔɹɪk/ [General-American] Forms: more paregoric [comparative], most paregoric [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρηγορικός (parēgorikós, “soothing”), from παρηγορέω (parēgoréō, “to console, comfort”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|παρηγορικός||soothing}} Ancient Greek παρηγορικός (parēgorikós, “soothing”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} paregoric (comparative more paregoric, superlative most paregoric)
  1. Assuaging or soothing pain.
    Sense id: en-paregoric-en-adj-PDZNhL2D
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: paregorick [obsolete]

Noun [English]

IPA: /pæɹɪˈɡɒɹɪk/ [Received-Pronunciation], /pɛɹɪˈɡɔɹɪk/ [General-American] Forms: paregorics [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρηγορικός (parēgorikós, “soothing”), from παρηγορέω (parēgoréō, “to console, comfort”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|παρηγορικός||soothing}} Ancient Greek παρηγορικός (parēgorikós, “soothing”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} paregoric (countable and uncountable, plural paregorics)
  1. A painkiller; a medicine which soothes or relieves pain; specifically the traditional patent medicine consisting of camphorated tincture of opium. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: PG [slang]
    Sense id: en-paregoric-en-noun-nh6eK4Mt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 9 91 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: paregorick [obsolete]

Noun [Romanian]

Etymology: From paregorie + -ic. Etymology templates: {{af|ro|paregorie|-ic}} paregorie + -ic Head templates: {{ro-noun|n|paregorice}} paregoric n (plural paregorice) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun|g=n|gpd=paregoricelor|gpi=paregorice|gsd=paregoricului|gsi=paregoric|n=|npd=paregoricele|npi=paregorice|nsd=paregoricul|nsi=paregoric|vp=paregoricelor|vs=paregoricule}} Forms: paregorice [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], paregoric [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], paregoricul [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], paregorice [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], paregoricele [accusative, definite, nominative, plural], paregoric [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, singular], paregoricului [definite, error-unrecognized-form, singular], paregorice [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, plural], paregoricelor [definite, error-unrecognized-form, plural], paregoricule [singular, vocative], paregoricelor [plural, vocative]
  1. consolation Tags: neuter

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for paregoric meaning in All languages combined (5.9kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.