# veneno
## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin venēnum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [veˈneno]
* Rhymes: -eno
* Hyphenation: ve‧ne‧no

### Noun

veneno (accusative singular venenon, plural venenoj, accusative plural venenojn)
* poison, venom

#### Derived terms

* antiveneno
* kontraŭveneno
* memvenenado
* sinvenenado
* venena
* venenado
* veneneca
* veneni
* veneniĝo
* venenimuna

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto veneno, English venom, French venin, Italian veleno, Spanish veneno, from Latin venēnum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /veˈneno/
* Rhymes: -eno

### Noun

veneno (plural veneni)
* poison, venom

#### Synonyms

* (poison): toxiko

#### Derived terms

* venena, venenoza (“venomous, poisonous”)
* venenagar
* venenizar

## Interlingua
### Noun

veneno (plural venenos)
* venom

## Italian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin venēnum, from Proto-Italic *weneznos, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁esnos, derived from the root *wenh₁- (“to love”). Doublet of veleno.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /veˈne.no/
* Rhymes: -eno
* Hyphenation: ve‧né‧no

### Noun

veneno m (plural veneni)
* (literary, obsolete) Alternative form of veleno (“poison”)

#### Related terms

* veleno
* venenoso
* venusto

### Further reading

* veneno in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /u̯eˈneː.noː/, [u̯ɛˈneːnoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /veˈne.no/, [veˈnɛːno]

### Etymology 1

From venēnum +‎ -ō.

#### Verb

venēnō (present infinitive venēnāre, perfect active venēnāvī, supine venēnātum); first conjugation
* to poison, imbue or infect with poison; to injure by slander
* to color; dye

##### Descendants

* Friulian: velenâ
* Vulgar Latin:
** *advenēnāre
*** Italian: avvelenare
*** Neapolitan: abbelenare
*** Sicilian: abbilinari
** *invenēnāre
*** Neapolitan: mmelenare
*** Romanian: învenina
*** Spanish: envenenar
*** Venetan: invełenar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

venēnō
* dative/ablative singular of venēnum

### References

* “veneno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “veneno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* veneno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to poison oneself: veneno sibi mortem consciscere

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin venēnum.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /veˈnẽ.nu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /veˈnẽ.nu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /veˈne.no/
* (Portugal) IPA: /vɨˈne.nu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /vɨˈne.nu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /bɨˈne.nu/
   * (Southern Portugal) IPA: [ˈvnenʷ]
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /vẽ.ˈnẽ.nu/
* Hyphenation: ve‧ne‧no

### Noun

veneno m (plural venenos)
* poison (substance harmful to a living organism)
    Synonyms: peçonha, tóxico, toxina
* (figurative) poison (something that harms a person or thing)
* (figurative) venom (feeling or speech marked by spite or malice)
    Synonym: maledicência

#### Usage notes

In Biology, veneno refers to what in English would be poison, while peçonha refers to venom. Therefore, these are false friends.

#### Related terms

* antiveneno
* antivenenoso
* envenenado
* envenenador
* envenenadouro
* envenenamento
* envenenar
* venenífero
* veneníparo
* venenosamente
* venenosidade
* venenoso

#### Descendants

* → Kadiwéu: weneeno

### Further reading

* “veneno”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish venino, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum. The modern Spanish form was modified to match the original Latin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /beˈneno/ [beˈne.no]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eno
* Syllabification: ve‧ne‧no

### Noun

veneno m (plural venenos)
* poison (substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism)
    Synonym: ponzoña
* venom (poison carried by an animal)
    Synonym: tósigo

#### Derived terms

* tirar veneno
* venenoso

#### Related terms

* envenenar

#### Descendants

* → Sardinian: venenu

### References

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] 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

### Further reading

* “veneno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10