suppository

English

Etymology

From Middle English suppositorie, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin suppositōrium, from Late Latin, neuter of suppositōrius (“placed beneath”), from Latin suppōnō (“to put under”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈpɒzɪtəɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: sə-päzʹĭ-tôr'ē, IPA^(key): /səˈpɑzɪˌtɔɹi/

Noun

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suppository

Wikipedia

suppository (plural suppositories)

1. (medicine) A medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity, especially the rectum, vagina or urethra, where it melts at body temperature.

   Hyponym: pessary

   rectal suppository;   vaginal suppository

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 372:

     He's smoother than a suppository, only his suppositories contain dynamite.

Related terms

• depository
• depot
• repository
• supposition
• suppositor

Translations

medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity

Arabic: تَحْمِيلَة f (taḥmīla), لَبُوس m (labūs), مفتول sg or m (maftul) Bulgarian: свещичка f (sveštička) Catalan: supositori (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 栓劑 / 栓剂 (zh) (shuānjì) Czech: čípek (cs) m Danish: stikpille (da) c Dutch: zetpil (nl) f, suppositoir m, suppo (nl) m Egyptian: (mt f) Esperanto: supozitorio Finnish: suppo (fi), suppositorio (fi), peräpuikko (fi) French: suppositoire (fr) m Georgian: სანთელი (ka) (santeli) German: Zäpfchen (de) n Greek: υπόθετο (el) n (ypótheto) Hungarian: kúp (hu), végbélkúp (hu) Icelandic: stíll m, stikkpilla f Indonesian: supositoria Irish: sopastóir m Italian: supposta (it) Japanese: (general) 坐薬 (ja) (zayaku), (formal) 坐剤 (ja) (zazai) Korean: 좌약 (jwayak) Latin: suppositōrium n Lithuanian: žvakùtė f Malay: supositori Persian: شیاف (fa) (šiâf) Polish: czopek (pl) m Portuguese: supositório m Russian: суппозиторий (ru) m (suppozitorij), свеча́ (ru) f (svečá) Slovak: čapík m Spanish: supositorio (es) m, cala (es) f Swedish: stolpiller (sv) Thai: ยาเหน็บ Turkish: fitil (tr)

See also

• buttplug
• clyster
• enema