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Latin
Etymology
From vēnum + eō meaning "go on sale." Compare vēndō.
Pronunciation
Verb
vēneō (present infinitive vēnīre, perfect active vēniī or vēnīvī, supine vēnitum); irregular conjugation
- to be sold
Usage notes
This verb is used as the passive of vendo.
Conjugation
The third principal part is most often contracted to vēniī, but occasionally appears as vēnīvī
References
- “veneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “veneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- veneo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
- (ambiguous) to come to Rome: Romam venire, pervenire
- (ambiguous) to go to meet some one: obviam venire alicui
- (ambiguous) to come into some one's hands: in alicuius manus venire, pervenire
- (ambiguous) to come in sight: venire in conspectum alicuius
- (ambiguous) to come to assist any one: auxilio alicui venire
- (ambiguous) to gain a person's esteem, friendship: in gratiam alicuius venire
- (ambiguous) to suffer reproof; to be criticised, blamed: in vituperationem, reprehensionem cadere, incidere, venire
- (ambiguous) to be a subject for gossip: in sermonem hominum venire
- (ambiguous) to become famous, distinguish oneself: gloriam colligere, in summam gloriam venire
- (ambiguous) to become doubtful: in dubium venire
- (ambiguous) to make a person forget a thing: aliquem in oblivionem alicuius rei adducere (pass. in oblivionem venire)
- (ambiguous) to be contested, become the subject of debate: in controversiam vocari, adduci, venire (De Or. 2. 72. 291)
- (ambiguous) to come before the tribunal of the critics: in existimantium arbitrium venire (Brut. 24. 92)
- (ambiguous) to pass into a proverb: in proverbii consuetudinem or simply in proverbium venire
- (ambiguous) to become frightened: in timorem venire, pervenire
- (ambiguous) to conceive a hope: in spem venire, ingredi, adduci
- (ambiguous) to be suspected by some one: in suspicionem alicui venire
- (ambiguous) to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
- (ambiguous) to come into the possession of something: in possessionem alicuius rei venire
- (ambiguous) to obtain an audience of some one: in congressum alicuius venire
- (ambiguous) to become customary, the fashion: in consuetudinem or morem venire
- (ambiguous) to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
- (ambiguous) to come within javelin-range: ad teli coniectum venire (Liv. 2. 31)
- (ambiguous) to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere
- (ambiguous) to make one's submission to some one: in deditionem venire (without alicui)