veronal

English

Etymology

Former trade name, after the Italian city Verona.[1]

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Noun

veronal (uncountable)

  1. 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.

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  1. ^ 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.”

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Veronal or French véronal.

Noun

veronal n (uncountable)

  1. veronal

Declension

Declension of veronal
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative veronal veronalul
genitive-dative veronal veronalului
vocative veronalule

Spanish

Noun

veronal m (uncountable)

  1. veronal

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