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venenum

Latin

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 venenum on Latin Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *weneznom (“lust, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, love”). See also Sanskrit वनति (vanati, “gain, wish, erotic lust”), Latin Venus, veneror, venia, vēnor and English wish.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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venēnum n (genitive venēnī); second declension

  1. a potion, juice
  2. poison, venom
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.513–514:
      [...] falcibus et messae ad lūnam quaeruntur aēnīs
      pūbentēs herbae nigrī cum lacte venēnī; [...].
      And ripening herbs are brought out, having been reaped with bronze sickles at [the optimal] moon [phase], ill-omened with their milky venom.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative venēnum venēna
Genitive venēnī venēnōrum
Dative venēnō venēnīs
Accusative venēnum venēna
Ablative venēnō venēnīs
Vocative venēnum venēna

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Aragonese: vereno
  • Catalan: verè
  • Emilian: vlen, vlei
  • Istriot: vanen
  • Italian: veleno (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: veren
  • Piedmontese: velen
  • Romanian: venin
  • Romagnol: vlèin, vlòin, vlei
  • Sicilian: vilenu
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: venene
    • → Portuguese: veneno
    • →? Proto-Albanian: [Term?]
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *gwenuɨn (see there for further descendants)
  • Unsorted:

Reflexes of the late variant venīnum: (some forms reflect ⇒ *venīmen)

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