"Heroin" meaning in German

See Heroin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /heʁoˈiːn/ Audio: De-Heroin2.ogg Forms: Heroins [genitive], neuter strong [table-tags], Heroin [nominative, singular], Heroins [genitive, singular], Heroin [dative, singular], Heroin [accusative, singular]
Etymology: Invented as a brand name by the German pharmaceutical company Bayer, which started marketing heroine in 1895. The name was coined to evoke heroisch (“heroic”), ultimately from Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”). Etymology templates: {{m|de|heroisch|t=heroic}} heroisch (“heroic”), {{m|grc|ἥρως|t=hero}} ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”) Head templates: {{de-noun|n.sg}} Heroin n (strong, genitive Heroins, no plural) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|n.sg}}
  1. heroin Tags: neuter, no-plural, strong Categories (topical): Recreational drugs Synonyms: Diacetylmorphin, Diamorphin
    Sense id: en-Heroin-de-noun-7m8BqS3Y Disambiguation of Recreational drugs: 80 2 18
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /heˈʁoː.ɪn/ Audio: De-Heroin.ogg
Etymology: From Heros + -in. Alteration of the variant Heroine, which is from Latin heroina. Etymology templates: {{suffix|de|Heros|-in}} Heros + -in, {{m|de|Heroine}} Heroine, {{der|de|la|heroina}} Latin heroina Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Heroin f (genitive Heroin, plural Heroinnen) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Heroin [genitive], Heroinnen [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Heroin [nominative, singular], Heroinnen [definite, nominative, plural], Heroin [genitive, singular], Heroinnen [definite, genitive, plural], Heroin [dative, singular], Heroinnen [dative, definite, plural], Heroin [accusative, singular], Heroinnen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (learned, higher register) female hero Tags: feminine, literary Synonyms: Heldin
    Sense id: en-Heroin-de-noun-BPjdEmuJ
  2. (theater) heroine, female protagonist Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Theater Synonyms: Heroine
    Sense id: en-Heroin-de-noun-bo-cTBc7 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German terms suffixed with -in Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 16 5 79 Disambiguation of German terms suffixed with -in: 15 13 71 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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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.