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Latin
Etymology
From venēficus (“poisonous; magical”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
venēficium n (genitive venēficiī or venēficī); second declension
- an instance of poisoning; poisonous substance
- the preparation of magic potions; sorcery, witchcraft, magic, magic potion
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
References
- “veneficium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “veneficium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- veneficium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accuse a person of violence, poisoning: accusare aliquem de vi, de veneficiis
- “veneficium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “veneficium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin