"temazepam" meaning in English

See temazepam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /təˈmeɪ.zɪ.pam/ [Received-Pronunciation], /təˈmaz.ɪ.pam/ [Received-Pronunciation], /təˈmæz.əˌpæm/ [General-American] Forms: temazepams [plural]
Etymology: Probably from tem- (“alteration of methyl”) + oxazepam. Etymology templates: {{af|en|methyl|oxazepam|alt1=tem-|t1=alteration of methyl}} tem- (“alteration of methyl”) + oxazepam Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} temazepam (countable and uncountable, plural temazepams)
  1. (pharmacology) A compound (trademark Restoril) of the benzodiazepine class used as a tranquilizer and short-acting hypnotic. Wikipedia link: temazepam Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Pharmaceutical drugs Hypernyms: benzodiazepine Translations (drug): témazépam [feminine] (French)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for temazepam meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "methyl",
        "3": "oxazepam",
        "alt1": "tem-",
        "t1": "alteration of methyl"
      },
      "expansion": "tem- (“alteration of methyl”) + oxazepam",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from tem- (“alteration of methyl”) + oxazepam.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "temazepams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "temazepam (countable and uncountable, plural temazepams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -azepam",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pharmaceutical drugs",
          "orig": "en:Pharmaceutical drugs",
          "parents": [
            "Drugs",
            "Matter",
            "Pharmacology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Biochemistry",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 June 6, Lesley Alderman, “Cost-Effective Ways to Fight Insomnia”, in New York Times",
          "text": "But if your problem is waking too early, he might suggest a longer-duration drug like temazepam, the generic version of Restoril.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A compound (trademark Restoril) of the benzodiazepine class used as a tranquilizer and short-acting hypnotic."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "benzodiazepine"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-temazepam-en-noun-6W77oNro",
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacology",
          "pharmacology"
        ],
        [
          "compound",
          "compound"
        ],
        [
          "benzodiazepine",
          "benzodiazepine"
        ],
        [
          "tranquilizer",
          "tranquilizer"
        ],
        [
          "short-acting",
          "short-acting"
        ],
        [
          "hypnotic",
          "hypnotic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacology) A compound (trademark Restoril) of the benzodiazepine class used as a tranquilizer and short-acting hypnotic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pharmacology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "drug",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "témazépam"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "temazepam"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈmeɪ.zɪ.pam/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈmaz.ɪ.pam/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈmæz.əˌpæm/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "temazepam"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "methyl",
        "3": "oxazepam",
        "alt1": "tem-",
        "t1": "alteration of methyl"
      },
      "expansion": "tem- (“alteration of methyl”) + oxazepam",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from tem- (“alteration of methyl”) + oxazepam.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "temazepams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "temazepam (countable and uncountable, plural temazepams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "benzodiazepine"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -azepam",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Pharmaceutical drugs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 June 6, Lesley Alderman, “Cost-Effective Ways to Fight Insomnia”, in New York Times",
          "text": "But if your problem is waking too early, he might suggest a longer-duration drug like temazepam, the generic version of Restoril.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A compound (trademark Restoril) of the benzodiazepine class used as a tranquilizer and short-acting hypnotic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pharmacology",
          "pharmacology"
        ],
        [
          "compound",
          "compound"
        ],
        [
          "benzodiazepine",
          "benzodiazepine"
        ],
        [
          "tranquilizer",
          "tranquilizer"
        ],
        [
          "short-acting",
          "short-acting"
        ],
        [
          "hypnotic",
          "hypnotic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(pharmacology) A compound (trademark Restoril) of the benzodiazepine class used as a tranquilizer and short-acting hypnotic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "pharmacology",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "temazepam"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈmeɪ.zɪ.pam/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈmaz.ɪ.pam/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/təˈmæz.əˌpæm/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "drug",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "témazépam"
    }
  ],
  "word": "temazepam"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.