Heroin

Senso

heroin

Con trattino come

He‧ro‧in

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/heʁoˈiːn/

Etimologia

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”).