venor
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /veˈnɔr/
Verb
venor
- 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]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.nor/, [ˈvɛːnor]
Verb
vēnor (present infinitive vēnārī or vēnārier, perfect active vēnātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- I chase, hunt, pursue game/quarry
- Synonym: aucupor
- (figuratively, mostly poetically) I 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