"excipient" meaning in English

See excipient in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more excipient [comparative], most excipient [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{bor|en|la|excipiēns}} Latin excipiēns, {{m|la|excipiō}} excipiō Head templates: {{en-adj}} excipient (comparative more excipient, superlative most excipient)
  1. Taking an exception. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-excipient-en-adj-Kfd3SJ3x Disambiguation of People: 35 27 39

Noun

Forms: excipients [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{bor|en|la|excipiēns}} Latin excipiēns, {{m|la|excipiō}} excipiō Head templates: {{en-noun}} excipient (plural excipients)
  1. (pharmacy, pharmacology) An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage. Categories (topical): Pharmacology, Pharmacy, People Translations (Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect): excipient [masculine] (French), Hilfsstoff [masculine] (German), eksipien (Indonesian), 부형제 (buhyeongje) (Korean), eksipien (Malay), excipiente [masculine] (Portuguese), excipiente [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-excipient-en-noun-VWfFK7vn Disambiguation of People: 35 27 39 Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences Disambiguation of 'Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect': 98 2
  2. An exceptor. Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-excipient-en-noun-m8SC47aG Disambiguation of People: 35 27 39 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 35 44 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 20 55
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: concipient, incipient, intercipient, recipient

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for excipient meaning in English (4.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*keh₂p-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excipiēns"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excipiēns",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "excipiō"
      },
      "expansion": "excipiō",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "excipients",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "excipient (plural excipients)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "concipient"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "incipient"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "intercipient"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "recipient"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pharmacology",
          "orig": "en:Pharmacology",
          "parents": [
            "Biochemistry",
            "Medicine",
            "Biology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pharmacy",
          "orig": "en:Pharmacy",
          "parents": [
            "Medicine",
            "Pharmacology",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "Biochemistry",
            "All topics",
            "Chemistry",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 27 39",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage."
      ],
      "id": "en-excipient-en-noun-VWfFK7vn",
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacy",
          "pharmacy"
        ],
        [
          "pharmacology",
          "pharmacology"
        ],
        [
          "ingredient",
          "ingredient"
        ],
        [
          "drug",
          "drug"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "pharmacy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacy, pharmacology) An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pharmacology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "excipient"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Hilfsstoff"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
          "word": "eksipien"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "buhyeongje",
          "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
          "word": "부형제"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
          "word": "eksipien"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "excipiente"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "excipiente"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "22 35 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 20 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 27 39",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An exceptor."
      ],
      "id": "en-excipient-en-noun-m8SC47aG",
      "links": [
        [
          "exceptor",
          "exceptor"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "excipient"
  ],
  "word": "excipient"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*keh₂p-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excipiēns"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excipiēns",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "excipiō"
      },
      "expansion": "excipiō",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more excipient",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most excipient",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "excipient (comparative more excipient, superlative most excipient)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "35 27 39",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Taking an exception."
      ],
      "id": "en-excipient-en-adj-Kfd3SJ3x",
      "links": [
        [
          "exception",
          "exception"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "excipient"
  ],
  "word": "excipient"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*keh₂p-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excipiēns"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excipiēns",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "excipiō"
      },
      "expansion": "excipiō",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "excipients",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "excipient (plural excipients)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "concipient"
    },
    {
      "word": "incipient"
    },
    {
      "word": "intercipient"
    },
    {
      "word": "recipient"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Pharmacology",
        "en:Pharmacy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacy",
          "pharmacy"
        ],
        [
          "pharmacology",
          "pharmacology"
        ],
        [
          "ingredient",
          "ingredient"
        ],
        [
          "drug",
          "drug"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "pharmacy",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacy, pharmacology) An ingredient that is intentionally added to a drug for purposes other than the therapeutic or diagnostic effect at the intended dosage."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pharmacology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An exceptor."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exceptor",
          "exceptor"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "excipient"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hilfsstoff"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
      "word": "eksipien"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "buhyeongje",
      "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
      "word": "부형제"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
      "word": "eksipien"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "excipiente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Drug additive without therapeutic or diagnostic effect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "excipiente"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "excipient"
  ],
  "word": "excipient"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*keh₂p-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "excipiēns"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin excipiēns",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "excipiō"
      },
      "expansion": "excipiō",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin excipiēns, present participle of excipiō. See except.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more excipient",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most excipient",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "excipient (comparative more excipient, superlative most excipient)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Taking an exception."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exception",
          "exception"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "excipient"
  ],
  "word": "excipient"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.