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EuroLex/E/Tranquillizer

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tranquillizer

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: n. 'a drug used to diminish anxiety'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian trankvilajzer mid20c the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch tranquillizer [= English] 1960s the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French < tranquillisant (trsl.) ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Tranquil(l)izer < Beruhigungsmittel [treŋkvilaiza] 1960s the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical dito ...
Hungarian < trankvilláns ... the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: Latin dito ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian < tranquillante ... '...' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian tranquillizer < beroligende middel [= English] 20c the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: technical dito ...
Polish trenkwilizator ... the same as in English, see above, status: word comes from other source than English: Latin dito ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish < tranquilizante (trsl.) ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...
  • Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.
  • Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: < róandi(lyf); Romanian: < tranchilizant; Russian: < trankvilizator; Bulgarian: < trankvilizator; ,