toxicum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón, “poison for arrows”), ellipsis of τοξικόν φάρμακον (toxikón phármakon, “drug for arrows”) from τοξικός (toxikós, “pertaining to bows”), from τόξον (tóxon, “bow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔk.sɪ.kũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɔk.si.kum]

Noun

toxicum n (genitive toxicī); second declension

1. a poison used on the tips of arrows
2. any poison

   Synonym: venēnum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	toxicum	toxica
genitive	toxicī	toxicōrum
dative	toxicō	toxicīs
accusative	toxicum	toxica
ablative	toxicō	toxicīs
vocative	toxicum	toxica

Related terms

• toxicō, intoxicō
• toxicus

Descendants

• Aromanian: toapsec
• Catalan: túixec; → tòxic
• → German: Toxikum
• → English: toxic
• Friulian: tuessin
• Italian: tossico, tosco
• Ladin: tuesse
• Occitan: toissic, tueissec
• Piedmontese: tòssi
• → Portuguese: tóxico
• Romanian: toapsec; → toxic
• Romansh: tissi, tössi
• Sardinian: toscu
• Sicilian: tòssicu
• → Spanish: tóxico, tósigo
• Venetan: tosego, tòsego

References

• “toxicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “toxicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “toxicum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.