nicotine

English

structure of nicotine

Etymology

Borrowing from French nicotine, named after Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who sent tobacco seeds back to France in 1561.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪkətiːn/

Noun

nicotine ‎(usually uncountable, plural nicotines)

1. (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.
2. (figuratively) tobacco, cigarettes

   He is addicted to nicotine.

Translations

addictive alkaloid derived from tobacco

• Arabic: نِيكُوتِين m ‎(nikutīn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尼古丁 (zh) ‎(nígǔdīng)

• Czech: nikotin (cs) m
• Danish: nikotin (da) c, n
• Dutch: nicotine (nl)
• Esperanto: nikotino
• Finnish: nikotiini (fi)
• French: nicotine (fr) f
• German: Nikotin (de) n
• Greek: νικοτίνη (el) ‎(nikotíni)
• Hebrew: ניקוטין (he) m ‎(nikotín)
• Hindi: निकोटीन ‎(nikōṭīn), ताम्रकूटी ‎(tāmrakūṭī)
• Hungarian: nikotin (hu)
• Ido: nikotino (io)
• Indonesian: nikotina
• Irish: nicitín m
• Italian: nicotina (it) f

• Japanese: ニコチン ‎(nikochin)
• Korean: 니코틴 ‎(nikotin)
• Latin: nicotina f
• Malay: nikotina
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nikotin (no) m, n

  Nynorsk: nikotin m, n

• Polish: nikotyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: nicotina (pt) f
• Romanian: nicotină (ro) f
• Russian: никоти́н (ru) m ‎(nikotín)
• Spanish: nicotina (es) f
• Swahili: nikotin (sw)
• Swedish: nikotin (sv) n, c
• Thai: สารนีโคะทีน ‎(săan nee-kó-tee-nor)
• Turkish: nikotin (tr)
• Vietnamese: nhựa thuốc, nicôtin
• Volapük: nikotin (vo)

Anagrams

• cotinine

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French

Noun

nicotine f ‎(uncountable)

1. nicotine (alkaloid)

External links

• “nicotine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Noun

nicotine f

1. plural of nicotina

Anagrams

• contieni