veneficium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛ.neːˈfɪ.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ve.neˈfiː.t͡ʃi.um]

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).

	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, 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