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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin venēnum.

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  • IPA(key): /veˈneno/
  • Rhymes: -eno
  • Hyphenation: ve‧ne‧no

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veneno (accusative singular venenon, plural venenoj, accusative plural venenojn)

  1. poison, venom

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Borrowed from Esperanto venenoEnglish venomFrench veninItalian velenoSpanish veneno, from Latin venēnum.

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veneno (plural veneni)

  1. poison, venom

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Interlingua

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Noun

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veneno (plural venenos)

  1. venom

Italian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin venēnum, from Proto-Italic *weneznos, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁esnos, derived from the root *wenh₁- (to love). Doublet of veleno.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /veˈne.no/
  • Rhymes: -eno
  • Hyphenation: ve‧né‧no

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veneno m (plural veneni)

  1. (literary, obsolete) Alternative form of veleno (poison)
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Further reading

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  • veneno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Etymology 1

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From venēnum +‎ .

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venēnō (present infinitive venēnāre, perfect active venēnāvī, supine venēnātum); first conjugation

  1. to poison, imbue or infect with poison; to injure by slander
  2. to color; dye
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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venēnō

  1. dative/ablative singular of venēnum

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  • veneno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • veneno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • veneno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to poison oneself: veneno sibi mortem consciscere

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin venēnum.

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  • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): [ˈvnenʷ]

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veneno m (plural venenos)

  1. poison (substance harmful to a living organism)
    Synonyms: peçonha, tóxico, toxina
  2. (figurative) poison (something that harms a person or thing)
  3. (figurative) venom (feeling or speech marked by spite or malice)
    Synonym: maledicência

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In Biology, veneno refers to what in English would be poison, while peçonha refers to venom. Therefore, these are false friends.

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish venino, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum. The modern Spanish form was modified to match the original Latin.

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  • IPA(key): /beˈneno/ [beˈne.no]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eno
  • Syllabification: ve‧ne‧no

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veneno m (plural venenos)

  1. poison (substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism)
    Synonym: ponzoña
  2. venom (poison carried by an animal)
    Synonym: tósigo

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