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cocaină
cocaine /ko.kaˈi.nə/
noun#2877 most common
Example sentences
Cocaina este periculoasă.
Cocaine is dangerous.
Poliția a găsit cocaină în bagajul lui.
The police found cocaine in his luggage.
Consumul de cocaină poate provoca dependență severă.
Cocaine use can cause severe addiction.
Traficanții ascundeau cocaina în containere de marfă.
The traffickers hid the cocaine in cargo containers.
Autoritățile vamale au confiscat o cantitate record de cocaină ascunsă într-un transport de banane.
Customs authorities confiscated a record quantity of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment.
Deși efectele cocainei asupra sistemului nervos central sunt cunoscute de zeci de ani, dependența pe care o provoacă rămâne extrem de greu de tratat.
Although the effects of cocaine on the central nervous system have been known for decades, the addiction it causes remains extremely hard to treat.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cocaină | cocaine |
| Genitive | cocaine | cocaine |
| Accusative | cocaină | cocaine |
| Vocative | cocaină | cocaine |
Word family
cocainomancocaine addict
cocainomaniecocaine addiction
cocainismchronic cocaine poisoning
cocainizato apply cocaine as a local anesthetic (dated, medical)
Etymology
Romanian borrowed cocaină from French cocaïne in the late 19th century, as chemistry and medical terminology moved into Romanian largely through French. French chemists coined cocaïne from coca, the name of the Andean shrub whose leaves yield the alkaloid, plus the chemical suffix -ine used for alkaloids and similar compounds. Coca itself comes from Quechua kuka. This is a modern scientific coinage rather than a word inherited from Latin, so it has no Indo-European root.
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