noun

aspirin

AS-prin/ˈæsprɪn/

A medicine used to relieve pain and reduce fever.

Two white tablets lie beside the open bottle of aspirin.

A small medicine bottle labeled only “aspirin,” with its cap beside it and two plain white tablets in the foreground.

Etymology

aGermanto acetylate

+spirLatinmeadowsweet

+inGermanchemical substance

Acetylation and Spiraea, meadowsweet, identify the chemical treatment and the plant associated with the medicine’s acid. Together with a chemical ending, they formed a short trademark name for the drug.

In context

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More examples

The package contains aspirin tablets.
She added aspirin to the list of medicines she had taken.
The study compared aspirin with another pain medicine.

Forms

aspirin · aspirins

Similar words

analgesic: A broad term for a pain-relieving medicine.