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morphine

French, noun/mɔʁ.fin/

morphine is spelled M-O-R-P-H-I-N-E (8 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 20,952nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Morphine is a French feminine noun meaning “morphine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé hétérocyclique à cinq noyaux issu de certains pavots, de la classe des alcaloïdes isoquinoléiques et…”.

What does morphine mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemorphine

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Composé hétérocyclique à cinq noyaux issu de certains pavots, de la classe des alcaloïdes isoquinoléiques et de la sous-classe des morphinanes, réputé cause des propriétés soporifiques et calmantes de l’opium sur divers animaux dont l’humain et consécutivement couramment employée comme analgésique, antalgique et hypnotique en médecine et classée comme stupéfiant dans une majorité de législations s

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of morphine

  • morphines plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce morphine?

  • /mɔʁ.fin/
  • \mɔʁ.fin\
  • [mɔʁ.fin]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to morphine

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is morphine in French?

morphine appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.

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

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