antipain

adj

Etymology

From anti- + pain.

  1. derived from *kʷoynéh₂ — “payment
  2. derived from *kʷoinā́
  3. derived from ποινή
  4. derived from poena
  5. derived from peine
  6. inherited from peyne
  7. prefixed as antipain — “anti + pain

Definitions

  1. Preventing or counteracting pain

    Preventing or counteracting pain; analgesic.

  2. An oligopeptide, produced by Actinomycetes and other bacteria, that acts as a protease…

    An oligopeptide, produced by Actinomycetes and other bacteria, that acts as a protease inhibitor

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antipain. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA