venor

Ido

venor

From Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”), or from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, love”) (disputedly). See also Latin Venus, veneror, venia, and venēnum.

vēnor (present infinitive vēnārī or vēnārier, perfect active vēnātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

to chase, hunt, pursue game/quarry
Synonym: aucupor
(figuratively, mostly poetically) to strive for, or pursue any objective, whether concrete or abstract in nature

Conjugation of vēnor (first conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	vēnor	vēnāris, vēnāre		vēnātur	vēnāmur	vēnāminī		vēnantur
	imperfect	vēnābar	vēnābāris, vēnābāre		vēnābātur	vēnābāmur	vēnābāminī		vēnābantur
	future	vēnābor	vēnāberis, vēnābere		vēnābitur	vēnābimur	vēnābiminī		vēnābuntur
	perfect	vēnātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	vēnātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	vēnātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	vēner	vēnēris, vēnēre		vēnētur	vēnēmur	vēnēminī		vēnentur
	imperfect	vēnārer	vēnārēris, vēnārēre		vēnārētur	vēnārēmur	vēnārēminī		vēnārentur
	perfect	vēnātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	vēnātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	vēnāre		—	—	vēnāminī		—
active	future	—	vēnātor		vēnātor	—	—		vēnantor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		vēnārī, vēnārier¹		—		vēnāns		—
future		vēnātūrum esse		—		vēnātūrus		vēnandus
perfect		vēnātum esse		—		vēnātus		—
future perfect		vēnātum fore		—		—		—
perfect potential		vēnātūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		vēnandī	vēnandō		vēnandum	vēnandō	vēnātum		vēnātū

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

stultitia est vēnātum dūcere invītōs canēs (“labouring in vain”, literally “folly is leading unwilling hunting dogs”)
piscārī in āere, vēnārī autem rēte iaculō in mediō marī (“labouring in vain”, literally “to fish in the air, moreover to hunt with a net thrown in the middle of the sea”)

“venor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“venor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"venor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
venor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.