quinine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪˈniːn/
ipa: /ˈkwɪn.iːn/
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.naɪn/
ipa: /ˈkwɪn.aɪn/
rhymes: -iːn
rhymes: -aɪn stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: quinines
Etymology: The noun is either:
* derived from Spanish quina (“quinine”) (a clipping of quinaquina (“Cinchona bark”)) + English -ine (suffix forming names of chemical substances, especially (among others) alkaloidal substances); or
* borrowed from French quinine, from quin(quina) (“Cinchona bark”) + -ine (feminine form of -in (suffix forming nouns)).
Spanish quinaquina and French quinquina are both derived from Quechua kina-kina, a reduplication of kina (“bark; (specifically) Cinchona bark”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The alkali of yellow bark may be distinguished from cinchonine by the name of quinine.
ref: 1821, The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, volume 10:
text: The quinine, being more potent than cinchonine, is generally preferred.
ref: 1828, The Medical Guide, Quinine, cinchonine, and sulphate of quinine:
text: In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 102:
text: He hadn't the faintest idea what to do with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., →OCLC:
text: “Die? Yes, they’ll all die—all these men. No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform. Oh, God, for some morphia! Just a little morphia for the worst ones. Just a little chloroform. God damn the Yankees! God damn the Yankees!”
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 363:
text: Quinine, taken in the evening, is considered by the Persians as an aphrodisiac aid.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 202:
text: I propose that the availability of increased stores of quinine under British control had a similar facilitating effect on the British colonial expansion into Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
ref: 1979, Lucile H. Brockway, Science and Colonial Expansion, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 127:
text: So far, the daily dose of quinine had been bitter and very unpalatable. […] To make the medicine go down more easily, colonialists occasionally mixed the powder with sugar, water and gin.
ref: 2014, Olivia Williams, “Gin is the Tonic”, in Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 163:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An alkaloid with the chemical formula C₂₀H₂₄N₂O₂, originally derived from cinchona bark (from plants of the genus Cinchona), used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water, which presents as a bitter colourless powder; also, a drug containing quinine or a chemical compound derived from it.
Derived terms: word: quinine bark
word: quinine bush
word: quinine flower
word: quinine test
word: quinine tree
word: quininic
word: quininism
word: quininize
Related terms: word: quina
word: quinacridone
word: quinacrine
word: quinaldine
word: quinamicine
word: quinamidine
word: quinaquina
word: quinamine
word: quinate
word: quinazoline
word: -quine
word: quinetum
word: quinhydrone
word: quinia
word: quinic
word: quinicine
word: quinide
word: quinidia
word: quinidine
word: quinina
word: quinism
word: quinizarin
word: quinoid
word: quinoidine
word: quinol
word: quinoline
word: quinolizine
word: quinologist
word: quinology
word: quinolone
word: quinone
word: quinonoid
word: quinotannic acid
word: quinova red
word: quinovatannic acid
word: quinovate
word: quinovic
word: quinovin
word: quinovite
word: quinovose
word: quinoxaline
word: quinoyl
word: quinquina
word: Jesuit's bark