cocaine

• n. [薬物]コカイン

コカ、南米の換金作物。-コカイン、化学接尾辞。

cocaine

cocaine: [19] Cocaine is made from the dried leaves of the coca bush, a plant native to the Andes, and its name was formed (perhaps originally in French, as coca?ne) from the plant’s name. That was a local name, Quechua koka, probably from the Aymara language of Bolivia and Peru, and it reached Europe in the 16th century by way of Spanish coca.

cocaine (n.)

1874, from Modern Latin cocaine (1856), coined by Albert Niemann of Gottingen University from coca (from Quechua cuca) + chemical suffix -ine (2). A medical coinage, the drug was used 1870s as a local anaesthetic for eye surgery, etc. "It is interesting to note that although cocaine is pronounced as a disyllabic word it is trisyllabic in its formation." [Flood]

1. The police moved in，arrested him and impounded the cocaine .

警察が突入して彼を逮捕しコカインを押収した。

2.He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine ，heroin and alcohol.

コカインとヘロインを何年も吸っており、一日中酒を飲んでいる。

3.She became a prostitute in order to pay for her cocaine habit.

彼女は娼婦として飼っている。

4.The anti-drug sweep had netted nearly 900 kilogrammes of cocaine .

麻薬除去行動で900キログラム近くのコカインを押収した。

5.Many of the women are addicted to heroin and cocaine .

これらの女性の多くはヘロインとコカインを吸って中毒になっている。