venom

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venimem, from Latin venenum, from Proto-Indo-European *wenes-no- (“lust, desire”), see also Sanskrit वनति (“gain, wish, erotic lust”) and Latin Venus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvɛnəm/, X-SAMPA: /"vEn@m/

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Noun

Wikipedia venom (plural venoms)

1. A poison wielded by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; atter.
2. (figuratively) Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice.

Translations

poison wielded by animal

• Albanian: helm (sq)
• Armenian: թույն (hy) (t'uyn)
• Aromanian: virin (rup), fãrmac (rup)
• Asturian: venenu (ast) m
• Bashkir: ағыу (ağïw)
• Catalan: verí (ca) m
• Chamicuro: solima
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毒素 (cmn)

• Czech: jed (cs) m
• Danish: gift (da) m
• Dutch: gif (nl) n, venijn (nl) n
• Finnish: myrkky (fi)
• French: venin (fr) m
• Friulian: velen m
• Galician: veleno (gl) m, pezoña (gl) f
• Georgian: შხამი (ka) (šxami)
• German: Gift (de) n
• Greek: δηλητήριο (el) (dilitírio) n
• Hungarian: méreg (hu)
• Ido: veneno (io)

• Interlingua: veneno (ia)
• Italian: veleno (it) m
• Latin: virus venenum
• Manx: nieu (gv)
• Norwegian: gift (no) m
• Occitan: veren (oc) m
• Polish: jad (pl) m
• Portuguese: peçonha (pt) f
• Romanian: venin (ro) n
• Russian: яд (ru) (jad)
• Sardinian: belenu (sc) m, benenu (sc) m, velenu (sc) m
• Scottish Gaelic: puinnsean (gd) m, nimh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: отров (sh) m

  Roman: otrov (sh) m

• Spanish: veneno (es) m
• Swedish: gift (sv) c
• Telugu: విషము (te) (vishamu)
• Volapük: venen (vo), venod (vo), venom (vo)

(figurative) malice

• Catalan: malvolença (ca) f
• French: venin (fr) m
• Romanian: venin (ro) n, fiere (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: nimh (gd) m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: злоба (sh) f

  Roman: zloba (sh) f

• Spanish: malicia (es) f

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• Ukrainian: отрутa (uk) (otruta) f

Derived terms

• nonvenomous
• venomous

Verb

venom (third-person singular simple present venoms, present participle venoming, simple past and past participle venomed)

1. To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.

   Venomed vengeance. — Shakespeare.

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Noun

venom

1. poison, venom

See also

• venen
• venod