venenum
Latin
Etymology
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯eˈneː.num/, [u̯ɛˈneːnʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈne.num/, [veˈnɛːnum]
Declension
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
- (poison): toxicum (toxicon)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Istrian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: veleno
- Sicilian: vilenu
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance;
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: belenu, benenu, velenu, ferenu, felenu
- → Albanian: vrer, vrerë
- → Dutch: venijn
- → English: venene
- → Proto-Brythonic: *gwenuɨn (see there for further descendants)
- → Portuguese: veneno (learned)
References
- “venenum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “venenum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- venenum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give a person poison in bread: dare venenum in pane
- to take poison: venenum sumere, bibere
- (ambiguous) to poison oneself: veneno sibi mortem consciscere
- to give a person poison in bread: dare venenum in pane
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