veneno

Borrowed from Latin venēnum.

• IPA^(key): /veˈneno/

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• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: ve‧ne‧no

veneno (accusative singular venenon, plural venenoj, accusative plural venenojn)

1. poison, venom

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

• IPA^(key): /veˈneno/
• Rhymes: -eno

veneno (plural veneni)

1. poison, venom

• (poison): toxiko

veneno (plural venenos)

1. venom

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

• IPA^(key): /veˈne.no/
• Rhymes: -eno
• Hyphenation: ve‧né‧no

veneno m (plural veneni)

1. (literary, obsolete) alternative form of veleno (“poison”)

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛˈneː.noː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈnɛː.no]

From venēnum +‎ -ō.

venēnō (present infinitive venēnāre, perfect active venēnāvī, supine venēnātum); first conjugation

1. to poison, imbue or infect with poison; to injure by slander
2. to color; dye

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

venēnō

1. dative/ablative singular of venēnum

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to poison oneself: veneno sibi mortem consciscere
    

Learned borrowing from Latin venēnum.

• (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈvnenʷ]

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /vẽ.ˈnẽ.nu/
• Hyphenation: ve‧ne‧no

veneno m (plural venenos)

1. poison (substance harmful to a living organism)

   Synonyms: peçonha, tóxico, toxina

2. (figurative) poison (something that harms a person or thing)
3. (figurative) venom (feeling or speech marked by spite or malice)

   Synonym: maledicência

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

• → Kadiwéu: weneeno

• “veneno”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “veneno”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “veneno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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.

• IPA^(key): /beˈneno/ [beˈne.no]

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• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: ve‧ne‧no

veneno m (plural venenos)

1. poison (substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism)

   Synonym: ponzoña

2. venom (poison carried by an animal)

   Synonym: tósigo

• → Sardinian: venenu

• 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

• “veneno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025