venenum

 venenum on Latin Wikipedia

• venīnum (early medieval)

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.

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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 moon , ill-omened with their milky venom.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (poison): toxicum (toxicon)

• venēnō

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

• 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
    
• Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983) “veneno”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 769
• “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.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vĕnēnum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 238