"theriaca" meaning in English

See theriaca in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: theriacas [plural], theriacae [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin theriaca, from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “of or related to poisonous reptiles”), from θηρίον (thēríon, “little beast”) + -κός (-kós), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”) + -ίον (-íon, diminutive suffix). Doublet of theriac; compare treacle. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|theriaca}} Late Latin theriaca, {{der|en|grc|θηριακή||of or related to poisonous reptiles}} Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “of or related to poisonous reptiles”), {{lg|diminutive}} diminutive, {{dbt|en|theriac}} Doublet of theriac Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|theriacae}} theriaca (countable and uncountable, plural theriacas or theriacae)
  1. Alternative spelling of theriac. Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: theriac
    Sense id: en-theriaca-en-noun-DpWA2Ygv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "theriaca"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin theriaca",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "θηριακή",
        "4": "",
        "5": "of or related to poisonous reptiles"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “of or related to poisonous reptiles”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "diminutive"
      },
      "expansion": "diminutive",
      "name": "lg"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "theriac"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of theriac",
      "name": "dbt"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Late Latin theriaca, from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “of or related to poisonous reptiles”), from θηρίον (thēríon, “little beast”) + -κός (-kós), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”) + -ίον (-íon, diminutive suffix). Doublet of theriac; compare treacle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "theriacas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "theriacae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "theriacae"
      },
      "expansion": "theriaca (countable and uncountable, plural theriacas or theriacae)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "theriac"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of theriac."
      ],
      "id": "en-theriaca-en-noun-DpWA2Ygv",
      "links": [
        [
          "theriac",
          "theriac#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "theriaca"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "theriaca"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin theriaca",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "θηριακή",
        "4": "",
        "5": "of or related to poisonous reptiles"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “of or related to poisonous reptiles”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "diminutive"
      },
      "expansion": "diminutive",
      "name": "lg"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "theriac"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of theriac",
      "name": "dbt"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Late Latin theriaca, from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “of or related to poisonous reptiles”), from θηρίον (thēríon, “little beast”) + -κός (-kós), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”) + -ίον (-íon, diminutive suffix). Doublet of theriac; compare treacle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "theriacas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "theriacae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "theriacae"
      },
      "expansion": "theriaca (countable and uncountable, plural theriacas or theriacae)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "theriac"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English doublets",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms borrowed from Late Latin",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms derived from Late Latin",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for pronunciation in English entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of theriac."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "theriac",
          "theriac#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "theriaca"
}

Download raw JSONL data for theriaca meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). 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.