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) 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		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		vēnārī, vēnārier1	vēnātum esse	vēnātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		vēnāns	vēnātus	vēnātūrus	—	—	vēnandus
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.