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stramonium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English

Syllables
stra-mo-ni-um
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A narcotic drug obtained from the dried leaves of this plant.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From New Latin stramonium, stramonia (attested since the 1540s), of unknown origin. (Compare Italian stramonio, attested since at least the 1560s.) The English word is attested since the 1660s. Some older dictionaries speculated that stramonium, as well as Russian дурма́н (durmán), might derive from a Turkic source like Tatar *turman (“medicine for horses”), but the Russian word is now thought to be an internal (native) formation, and the Tatar word, properly дәрман (därman, “remedy”), derives from Persian.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

stramoniums (plural) stramonia (plural)

Rhymes With

plutonium pandemonium polonium harmonium euphonium meconium pelargonium iconium pancuronium vecuronium hydronium diazonium

Questions

What does stramonium mean?
The jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.
Where does stramonium come from?
From New Latin stramonium, stramonia (attested since the 1540s), of unknown origin. (Compare Italian stramonio, attested since at least the 1560s.) The English word is attested since the 1660s. Some older dictionaries speculated that stramonium, as well as Russian дурма́н (durmán), might derive from a Turkic source like Tatar *turman (“medicine for horses”), but the Russian word is now thought to be an internal (native) formation, and the Tatar word, properly дәрман (därman, “remedy”), derives from Persian.

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