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Latin
Etymology
The ethnonym has been connected to venia (“kindness, grace, friendliness”) in reference to the tribe's friendly nature, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁-. More at Veneti. Found in ancient Greek as Οὐενέδαι (Ouenédai).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Venedī m pl (genitive Venedōrum); second declension
- A tribe of Sarmatia who dwelt along the course of the river Vistula
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “Venedi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Venedi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Venedae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Pokorny 1959: 1146 - 1147; Steinacher 2002: 33
- Campbell, Lyle (2004). Historical Linguistics. MIT Press. p. 418.