Heroin

Significado

heroin

Con guión como

He‧ro‧in

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/heʁoˈiːn/

Etimología

Invented as a brand name by the German pharmaceutical company Bayer, which started marketing heroine in 1895. The name was coined to evoke heroisch (“heroic”), ultimately from Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”).