venom
/ˈvɛnəm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] There may be in the cup / A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart, / And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge / Is not infected..."
- "And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew, / And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew, / Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites, / Or hurtfull Worm with canker’d venom bites […]"
- "I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom."
- "The serious artist […] [is] obsessed by his material; it’s like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote."
- "Venom evolved from saliva and it's used primarily for catching and digesting prey."
- "The venom of such looks, we fairly hope, / Have lost their quality, and that this day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love."
Etymology
From Middle English venym, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum (“drug; poison; a charm”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”). Doublet of venin and venene.