nicotine

English

structure of nicotine

Etymology

Borrowed from French nicotine, named after Jean Nicot (1530–1604), French ambassador to Portugal, who sent tobacco seeds back to France in 1561. Etymology of the surname itself is unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪkətiːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

nicotine (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) An alkaloid (C₁₀H₁₄N₂), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant. In small doses it is a habit-forming stimulant; in larger doses it is toxic and is often used in insecticides.

   He is addicted to nicotine.

2. (figuratively) Tobacco, cigarettes

   He's got nicotine stains on his fingers.

Derived terms

• conicotine
• denicotinized
• nicotinal
• nicotine alkaloid
• nicotinean
• nicotine gum
• nicotine patch
• nicotine polacrilex
• nicotine stomatitis
• nicotinian
• nicotinic
• nicotinize

Translations

addictive alkaloid derived from tobacco

• Arabic: نِيكُوتِين m (nikutīn)
• Armenian: նիկոտին (hy) (nikotin)
• Catalan: nicotina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼古丁 (zh) (nígǔdīng)

• Czech: nikotin (cs) m
• Danish: nikotin (da) c or n
• Dutch: nicotine (nl) f
• Esperanto: nikotino
• Estonian: nikotiin
• Finnish: nikotiini (fi)
• French: nicotine (fr) f
• Friulian: nicotine f
• Galician: nicotina f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Nikotin (de) n
• Greek: νικοτίνη (el) (nikotíni)
• Hebrew: נִיקוֹטִין (he) m (nikotín)
• Hindi: निकोटीन (nikoṭīn), ताम्रकूटी (tāmrakūṭī)
• Hungarian: nikotin (hu)
• Icelandic: nikótín (is) n
• Ido: nikotino (io)
• Indonesian: nikotina
• Irish: nicitín m
• Italian: nicotina (it) f
• Japanese: ニコチン (nikochin)
• Korean: 니코틴 (nikotin)
• Latin: nicotina f
• Latvian: nikotīns
• Lithuanian: nikotinas
• Malay: nikotina
• Maori: nikotini
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nikotin (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: nikotin m or n

• Occitan: nicotina f
• Piedmontese: nicotin-a f
• Polish: nikotyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: nicotina (pt) f
• Romanian: nicotină (ro) f
• Russian: никоти́н (ru) m (nikotín)
• Slovak: nikotín
• Slovene: nikotin (sl)
• Spanish: nicotina (es) f
• Swahili: nikotin (sw)
• Swedish: nikotin (sv) n or c
• Tagalog: nikotina
• Thai: สารนีโคะทีน (săan nee-kó-teen)
• Turkish: nikotin (tr)
• Vietnamese: nicotin, nhựa thuốc, nicôtin
• Volapük: nikotin (vo)
• Welsh: nicotîn

Anagrams

• cotinine

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French nicotine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌni.koːˈti.nə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ni‧co‧ti‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

nicotine f (uncountable)

1. nicotine (C₁₀H₁₄N₂, alkaloid)

Derived terms

• nicotinekauwgom
• nicotinepleister

French

Etymology

Named after French diplomat Jean Nicot (1530–1604).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni.kɔ.tin/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

nicotine f (uncountable)

1. nicotine (alkaloid)

Descendants

• → Catalan: nicotina
• → Czech: nikotin
• → Danish: nikotin
• → Dutch: nicotine
• → English: nicotine
• → German: Nikotin
• → Norwegian Bokmål: nikotin
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: nikotin
• → Portuguese: nicotina
• → Spanish: nicotina
• → Swedish: nikotin

Further reading

• “nicotine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Noun

nicotine f (plural -)

1. nicotine

Italian

Noun

nicotine f

1. plural of nicotina

Anagrams

• contieni