venor

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈnɔr/

Verb

venor

1. future infinitive of venar

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.nor/, [ˈu̯eːnɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.nor/, [ˈvɛːnor]

Verb

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

1. to chase, hunt, pursue game/quarry

   Synonym: aucupor

2. (figuratively, mostly poetically) to strive for, or pursue any objective, whether concrete or abstract in nature

Conjugation

   Conjugation of vēnor (first conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular						plural
		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
		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
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		vēnāre		—		—		vēnāminī		—
	future	—		vēnātor		vēnātor		—		—		vēnantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		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.

Derived terms

• vēnābulum
• vēnātiō
• vēnātor
• vēnātus

Proverbs

• 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”)

Descendants

• Aromanian: avin, avinari
• English: venery
• Old French: vener
  • French: vener
• Portuguese: vear
• Romanian: vâna, vânare

References

• “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.