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pethidine

/ˈpɛθ.ɪ.diːn/noun

pethidine is a noun meaning “A synthetic compound used as a painkilling drug, especially for women in labor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-T-H-I-D-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pethidine is pethidines.

What does pethidine mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A synthetic compound used as a painkilling drug, especially for women in labor.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce pethidine?

  • /ˈpɛθ.ɪ.diːn/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of pethidine

  • pethidines plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is pethidine?

Pethidine appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does pethidine come from?

Blend of p(iper)idine + eth(yl).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).