veneficium

Latin

Etymology

From venēficus (“poisonous; magical”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯e.neːˈfi.ki.um/, [u̯ɛneːˈfɪkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.neˈfi.t͡ʃi.um/, [veneˈfiːt͡ʃium]

Noun

venēficium n (genitive venēficiī or venēficī); second declension

1. an instance of poisoning; poisonous substance
2. the preparation of magic potions; sorcery, witchcraft, magic, magic potion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	venēficium	venēficia
Genitive	venēficiī venēficī1	venēficiōrum
Dative	venēficiō	venēficiīs
Accusative	venēficium	venēficia
Ablative	venēficiō	venēficiīs
Vocative	venēficium	venēficia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• venēfica
• venēficus

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^[1], 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