different between bile vs venom

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Etymology 1

Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin b?lis (“bile”).

Noun

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

1. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
2. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
3. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

Synonyms

• gall

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *b?l?.

Noun

bile (plural biles)

1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).

Verb

bile (third-person singular simple present biles, present participle biling, simple past and past participle biled)

1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.
   • 1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy (page 130)

     We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

Anagrams

• -ible, Lieb

Albanian

Etymology

Either related to bolle, or a singularized plural of *bilë, from Proto-Albanian *beila, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyH- (“to strike, beat”), in which case close to Proto-Germanic *bilj? (“spike, peg, nail, axe, sword, blade”). Compare English bill, German Bille (“axe”).

Noun

bile f

1. penis

Related terms

• bolle

French

Etymology

From Latin bilis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bil/

Noun

bile f (uncountable)

1. bile

Derived terms

• bile jaune
• bile noire
• se faire de la bile

Further reading

• “bile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??l??/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bile, from Proto-Celtic *belyom (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?olh?yom (“leaf”).

Noun

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one
2. scion; distinguished person

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See béal (“lip”)

Noun

bile m (genitive singular bile, nominative plural bilí)

1. rim (of vessel)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "bile" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin b?lis (“bile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi.le/

Noun

bile f (plural bili)

1. (physiology) bile
2. anger

Derived terms

See also

• fiele

Anagrams

• beli

Latin

Noun

b?le

1. ablative singular of b?lis

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²bi?l.?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German b?le (“axe”).

Noun

bile f or m (definite singular bila or bilen, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2

From bil.

Verb

bile (present tense biler, past tense bilte, past participle bilt)

1. To ride a car

References

“bile” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²bi?l.?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German b?le (“axe”).

Noun

bile f (definite singular bila, indefinite plural biler, definite plural bilene)

1. An axe, espescially a broadaxe

Etymology 2

From bil.

Verb

bile (present tense bilar or biler, past tense bila or bilte, past participle bila or bilt)

1. To ride a car

References

“bile” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?olyo- (“leaf”). Cognate with Latin folium, Ancient Greek ?????? (phúllon), and Old Armenian ?????? (bo?bo?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?il?e/

Noun

bile m (genitive bili, nominative plural bili)

1. tree, especially a large, ancient, sacred one

Declension

Derived terms

• bilech, biledach

Descendants

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bilis.

Noun

bile f (uncountable)

1. gall; bile

   Synonyms: fel, bílis

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bile]

Noun

bile f

1. indefinite plural of bil?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of bil?

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bél (“lip”). Related to beul.

Noun

bile f (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

1. lip (of mouth)
2. rim (of container)
3. brim (of hat)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bill.

Noun

bile m (genitive singular bile, plural bilean)

1. bill (for law)

References

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bilèsi

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (bile) (Turkish bile).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?le/
• Hyphenation: bi?le

Adverb

bìle (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) moreover, even

Participle

bile (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. feminine plural active past participle of biti

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (bile), from Proto-Turkic *bile (“with, together, also”).

Conjunction

bile

1. neither, even

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bile or Middle Low German bîle, bîl (“axe”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bilj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bil?/

Noun

bile c (plural bilen, diminutive byltsje)

1. axe

Further reading

• “bile”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English boillen, from Old French boillir. It's a vulgar pronunciation in Ireland.

Verb

bile (past participle bilethe)

1. boil

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

From Middle English venum, venym, from Anglo-Norman venum, venim, venime, from Old French venim, venin, from Vulgar Latin *ven?men, from Latin ven?num, from Proto-Italic *weneznom (“lust, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, wish, love”); see also Sanskrit ???? (vanati, “gain, wish, erotic lust”) and Latin Venus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?n?m/

Noun

venom (countable and uncountable, plural venoms)

1. A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging.
   • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act II, Scene 1,^[1]

     […] 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:

   • 1634, John Milton, Arcades in Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, London: Humphrey Moseley, Song, p. 54,^[2]

     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.

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Chapter 20,^[3]

     I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.

   • 1968, Truman Capote, interview published in Mademoiselle, August 1968,^[4]

     The serious artist […] [is] obsessed by his material; it’s like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

2. (figuratively) Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act V, Scene 2,^[5]

     The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,

     Have lost their quality, and that this day

     Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.

   • 1790, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, London: C. Dilly, Volume 5, No. 130, p. 48,^[6]

     […] as I was feasting my jaundiced eye one morning with a certain newspaper, which I was in the habit of employing as the vehicle of my venom, I was startled at discovering myself conspicuously pointed out in an angry column as a cowardly defamer […]

   • 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Chapter 33,^[7]

     “My daughter […] has no occasion to dispute the identity of your person; the venom of your present language is sufficient to remind her that she speaks with the mortal enemy of her father.”

   • 1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, New York: Open Road, 2012, Book Three,

     History is a study which has none of the venom of reality in it.

   • 2007, Roger Ebert, Your Movie Sucks, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, Introduction,^[8]

     Some of these reviews were written in joyous zeal. Others with glee. Some in sorrow, some in anger, and a precious few with venom, of which I have a closely guarded supply.

Synonyms

• (poison carried by an animal): atter (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

venom (third-person singular simple present venoms, present participle venoming, simple past and past participle venomed)

1. (obsolete) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
   • 1566, Thomas Blundeville (translator and editor), The Fower Chiefyst Offices Belongyng to Horsemanshippe, London, Chapter 36,^[9]

     […] washe all the filth away with warme water, and annoynte the place with Hony and Fytch flower myngled together. But beware you touche none of the kirnelles with your bare finger, for feare of venoming the place, which is very apt for a Fistula to breede in.

   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 3,^[10]

     Let’s leave the hermit pity with our mothers,

     And when we have our armours buckled on,

     The venom’d vengeance ride upon our swords,

     Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.

   • 1669, John Bunyan, The Holy Citie, or, The New-Jerusalem, London: Francis Smith, Commentary, Chapter 21, Verse 25, pp. 229-230,^[11]

     The Dragon is a venemous beast, and poisoneth all where he lieth; he beats the Earth bare, and venoms it, that it will bear no grass […]

   • 1717, William Stonestreet (translator), “The Story of Ants chang’d to Men” in Samuel Garth (editor), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 7, p. 239,^[12]

     Our Fountains too a dire Infection yield,

     For Crowds of Vipers creep along the Field,

     And with polluted Gore, and baneful Steams,

     Taint all the Lakes, and venom all the Streams.

Derived terms

• venomer

Adjective

venom (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Poisonous, poisoned; (figuratively) pernicious.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,^[13]

     Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?

     Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows’ nests?

     Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud?

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,^[14]

     […] it is stopp’d with other flattering sounds,

     As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,

     Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound

     The open ear of youth doth always listen;

Anagrams

• Venmo

Middle English

Noun

venom

1. Alternative form of venym

Volapük

Noun

venom

1. poison, venom

See also

• venen
• venod