cocaina
cocaine
noun koh-kah-EE-nah Rare
Origin: From Quechua kuka (the coca plant) + chemical suffix -ina.
Usage Note
Cocaina is the standard Italian term for the drug cocaine. Informally it is shortened to coca, which can also refer to Coca-Cola — context always disambiguates. Legal and medical texts use the full form. The adjective cocainico and noun cocainomane ('cocaine addict') are derived forms frequently encountered in news reporting.
Examples
"La polizia ha sequestrato un chilo di cocaina."
Natural Translation
The police seized a kilogram of cocaine.
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