veronal
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Former trade name, after the Italian city Verona.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]veronal (uncountable)
- A barbiturate, used formerly to induce sleep.
- Synonyms: barbital, diethylmalonyl urea, diethylbarbituric acid, barbitol
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 29, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- He was by now so worn out that he could not resist my firmness. I gave him a sufficient dose of veronal to insure his unconsciousness for several hours. I thought that was the best service I could render him.
- 1926, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:
- She died of an overdose of veronal. She's been taking it lately for sleeplessness. Must have taken too much.
- 2010 January 28, Michael Hofmann, “Vermicular Dither”, in London Review of Books[1], volume 32, number 02, →ISSN:
- I have seen the Brazilian press photograph of Zweig and Lotte, his second wife, lying dead of their overdoses of veronal on two pushed-together single iron bedsteads, he on his back, mouth a little agape, in a sweat-stained shirt and knitted tie, she on his shoulder in a floral wrap and clean hair, and you can practically hear the ceiling fan going round.
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Donald R. Wesson, David Elvin Smith (1977) Barbiturates, their use, misuse, and abuse, New York: Human Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 15: “Twenty-one years later, Emile Fischer, a student of Baeyer's who also received a Nobel Prize in chemistry, and Baron Joseph von Mering (1903) introduced barbital into clinical medicine under the trade name of Veronal—a name derived from the Italian city of Verona.”
Further reading
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Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Veronal or French véronal.
Noun
[edit]veronal n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | veronal | veronalul |
| genitive-dative | veronal | veronalului |
| vocative | veronalule | |
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]veronal m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “veronal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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