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narcotic
narcotic:
[14] Greek
nárkē
meant ‘numbness’. From it was derived the verb
narkoun
‘make numb’, which in turn formed the basis of the adjective
narkōtikós
‘numbing’, which passed into English via medieval Latin
narcōticus
and Old French
narcotique
.