virus.
venom (sg.), poisonous secretion of snakes/creatures/plants; acrid element;
Meaning & usage
venom (a poisonous substance secreted by animals or plants)
a plant- or animal-sourced substance with medicinal or magical properties
a liquid element that makes something taste or smell bitter or acrid
a liquid element that makes something taste or smell bitter or acrid bitterness, acrimony (of speech, manner or disposition)
a virus (infectious organism)
Where this word comes from
Via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“fluidity, slime, poison”). Cognates include Sanskrit विष (viṣá), Ancient Greek ἰός (iós, “poison”), Tocharian B wase, and Middle Irish fí. The neuter gender, despite its nominative singular ending -us being typical of the masculine second declension, is possibly a relic of this term's inheritance from a neuter s-stem.
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