cannabis

Borrowed from Latin cannabis (“hemp”), from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more. Doublet of canvas and hemp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænəbɪs/

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• Hyphenation: can‧na‧bis

cannabis (countable and uncountable, plural cannabises)

1. A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.

   Synonyms: hemp, marijuana

   Hyponyms: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, Cannabis ruderalis

2. A mildly euphoriant or sedating, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.

   Synonyms: 420, bhang, bud, dope, draw, ganja, grass, herb, leaf, marijuana, pot, puff, string, reefer, skunk, THC, weed

   • 2021 July 22, Katie Hunt, “Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Cannabis use disorder is usually defined as a problematic use of the drug: developing tolerance to weed; using cannabis in larger amounts or over a longer period than intended; being unable to reduce use; spending a lot of time obtaining, using or recovering from the effects of cannabis; giving up important activities and obligations in favor of cannabis; and continued use of the drug despite negative consequences.

   • 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:

     We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.

   • 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:

     We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.

3. The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.

• → Irish: cannabas
• → Welsh: canabis

• Appendix:Cannabis slang

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάννᾰβῐς (kánnăbĭs).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.naːˌbɪs/

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• Hyphenation: can‧na‧bis

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. cannabis, plant of the genus Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica

   Synonyms: cannabisplant, hennep, hennepplant, wietplant

2. cannabis, a drug made from parts of this plant

   Synonyms: hennep, wiet

• → Indonesian: kanabis

• “cannabis” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). Doublet of chanvre.

• IPA^(key): /ka.na.bis/

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cannabis m (uncountable)

1. cannabis

• “cannabis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more.

• cannaba, cannabum, cannabus, canapa, canapis, canapus, canava, canva (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.na.bɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.na.bis]

cannabis f (genitive cannabis); third declension

1. hemp

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

• cannabius

• ⇒ Late Latin: cannabum, cannabus
  • Asturian: cáñamu
  • Catalan: cànem
  • Galician: cánabo (“hemp, hemp fiber”)
  • Occitan: cambe, carbe
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cánamo, cánabo
  • Spanish: cáñamo
    • → Portuguese: cânhamo
  • Sardinian: cànnabu, càgnu
  • Sicilian: cànnavu, cànnamu

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: canapa
  • → Albanian: kërp
  • Aromanian: cãnipã
  • Friulian: cjanaipe, čhanaipe
  • Italian: canapa
  • Megleno-Romanian: cǫnipă
  • Romanian: cânepă, cânipă

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *canapis, *canapus
  • ⇒ Dalmatian: canapial (“cord”)

• ⇒ Late Latin: canava
  • French: chanvre
  • Norman: cannevi
  • Portuguese: cânave
  • Romansch: chanv, chonv, coniv, tgonev
  • Sicilian: cànnava
  • Venetan: caneva

• → Catalan: cànnabis
• → Dutch: cannabis
• → English: cannabis
  • → Irish: cannabas
• → French: cannabis
• → German: Cannabis
• → Galician: cánnabis
• → Greek: κάνναβη (kánnavi) (or directly from Ancient Greek)
• → Irish: cnáib
• → Italian: cannabis
• → Norman: cannabis
• → Occitan: canabís,
• → Portuguese: canábis, cânabis
• → Romanian: canabis
• → Spanish: cannabis
• → Swedish: cannabis

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.na.biːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.na.bis]

cannabīs

1. dative/ablative plural of cannabum

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.na.biːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.na.bis]

cannabīs

1. dative/ablative plural of cannaba

• “cannabis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cannabis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis).

cannabis m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) cannabis

• cánnabis

Borrowed from Latin cannabis, from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See also cáñamo.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈnabis/ [kãnˈna.β̞is], /kaˈnabis/ [kaˈna.β̞is]
• Rhymes: -abis
• Syllabification: can‧na‧bis

cannabis m or f (uncountable)

1. cannabis

• Cannabis is usually treated as a masculine noun, though treating it as a feminine noun, per its etymology, is also permitted.^[1]

• “cannabis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Latin cannabis.

cannabis c

1. cannabis; Cannabis sativa
2. cannabis; a recreational drug

• hasch
• marijuana

• cannabis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• cannabis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)