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 Latin) IPA(key): [ˈweː.nɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛː.nor]
Verb
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
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
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
- Balkano-Romance:
- Aromanian: avin, avinari
- Romanian: vâna, vânare
- Borrowings:
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.