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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

analgésico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: analgésico

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Painkiller/ˈpeɪnˌkɪl.ər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #3450 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Necesito un analgésico para el dolor de muelas."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A medicine or drug used to relieve physical pain and discomfort.

    "She took a strong painkiller to help ease her severe headache."
  2. 2

    Anything that relieves emotional distress or mental suffering.

    "Art became his primary painkiller after the tragic loss."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the English words 'pain' (from Old French peine, ultimately from Latin poena meaning punishment or penalty) and 'killer' (from Middle English killen, of Germanic origin). The term emerged in the 19th century as pharmacological developments led to synthesized and extracted substances designed specifically to alleviate physical suffering.

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