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kuka
Quechua · pre-1500s
"the coca plant"
named the coca shrub whose leaves were chewed for stimulant effect
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coca
Spanish · 1570s
"the coca shrub"
adopted by Spanish colonists in the Andes for the same plant
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cocaine
German · 1856
"the stimulant alkaloid isolated from coca leaves"
coined by chemist Albert Niemann, who isolated the alkaloid and added the scientific suffix '-ine'
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cocaine
English · 1870s
"an addictive stimulant drug derived from coca leaves"
adopted directly from the German scientific coinage
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