[1665–75; ‹ LL venēnōsus, equiv. to L venēn(um) drug, venom + -ōsus-ose1]This word is first recorded in the period 1665–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: diffraction, group, newsletter, regulation, suite-ose is a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, meaning “full of,” “aboundingin,” “given to,” “like”. Other words that use the affix -ose include: frondose, globose, jocose, otiose, verbose