venin

From French venin (“venom”), from Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”). Doublet of venene and venom.

venin (plural venins)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of venom.
2. (biochemistry) A toxic substance found in the venom of poisonous snakes.
3. (biochemistry) A supposedly identical toxic substance obtained by cleavage of an albumose.

• antivenin

• “venin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Nevin, Niven

Inherited from Middle French venin, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum.

• IPA^(key): /və.nɛ̃/

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venin m (plural venins)

1. venom (poison)

   Synonym: poison

2. (figuratively) venom, vitriol (feeling of malign or contempt)

   cracher son venin ― to spit venom

   • 2025 December 27, Julie Carriat, Sandrine Cassini, quoting Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon, avec la « nouvelle France », s’empare du terrain de l’identité pour contrer l’extrême droite”, in Le Monde‎^[1]:

     « Cette nouvelle France, c’est nous, les bigarrés, les mélangés qui refusons absolument le venin qui leur permet de rester au pouvoir – la division du peuple par le racisme », carillonne Jean-Luc Mélenchon, en meeting à Lyon, le 6 juin.

     “This new France, this is us, the motley crowd, the metis who completely reject the vitriol that allows them to stay in power—the division of the nation by racism”, proclaimed Jean-Luc Mélenchon at a ralley in Lyon on June 6th.

• morte la bête, mort le venin
• envenimer
• vénéneux
• venimeux

• “venin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

venin

1. (Old Lombard) venom

• venim

From Old French venim.

venin m (plural venins)

1. venom

• envenimer

• French: venin

From Latin venēnum, either directly or via the later form venīnum.

• IPA^(key): /veˈnin/

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venin n (plural veninuri)

1. venom
2. (figuratively) malice

The plural form of this word is rare.

• otravă

• învenina
• veninos