venatio

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin venatio. Doublet of venison and venation.

Noun

venatio (countable and uncountable, plural venationes)

1. The hunting and slaying of wild animals as a form of entertainment in Ancient Roman amphitheaters.

Latin

Etymology

From vēnor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈnaː.ti.oː/, [u̯eːˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈnat.t͡si.o/, [veˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

vēnātiō f (genitive vēnātiōnis); third declension

1. hunting, the chase, venery
2. hunt

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vēnātiō	vēnātiōnēs
Genitive	vēnātiōnis	vēnātiōnum
Dative	vēnātiōnī	vēnātiōnibus
Accusative	vēnātiōnem	vēnātiōnēs
Ablative	vēnātiōne	vēnātiōnibus
Vocative	vēnātiō	vēnātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: venació
• → English: venation
• Italian: venagione
• Old French: venison
  • French: venaison (“venison”)
  • → Middle English: venisoun
    • English: venison
• Portuguese: veação
• → Spanish: venación

References

• “venatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “venatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• venatio 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)
• venatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “venatio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin