toxicum

From Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón, “poison for arrows”), from τοξικός (toxikós, “pertaining to bows”), from τόξον (tóxon, “bow”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtok.si.kum/, [ˈt̪ɔks̠ɪkʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtok.si.kum/, [ˈt̪ɔksikum]

toxicum n (genitive toxicī); second declension

1. a poison used on the tips of arrows
2. any poison

   Synonym: venēnum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• toxicō, intoxicō
• toxicus

• “toxicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “toxicum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• toxicum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.