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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Nevin, Niven

From Middle French venin, from Old French venin, venim, probably through a Vulgar Latin form *venīmen, from Latin venēnum, from a Proto-Italic *weneznom (“lust, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, love”).

• IPA^(key): /və.nɛ̃/

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venin m (plural venins)

1. venom (poison)

   Synonym: poison

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

   cracher son venin ― to spit venom

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

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

• venim

From Old French venim.

venin m (plural venins)

1. venom

• envenimer

• French: venin

From Latin venēnum, from a Proto-Italic *weneznom (“lust, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, love”).

• 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