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

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

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
  • 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.
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