venenum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === venīnum (early medieval) === 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 Latin) IPA(key): [wɛˈneː.nũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [veˈnɛː.num] === Noun === venēnum n (genitive venēnī); second declension a potion, juice poison, venom ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Synonyms ==== (poison): toxicum (toxicon) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Reflexes of the late variant venīnum: (some forms reflect ⇒ *venīmen) === References === Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983), “veneno”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[2] (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 (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 238