英语词汇venom的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	venom
词源	venom. Though it means “poison,” venom began life as the love potion, venenum, that the Roman goddess Venus used to infect human hearts. The Latin venenum eventually became the basis of words meaning poison in several languages, our English venom being first recorded in 1220 as venim.
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