veneo

From vēnum +‎ eō, literally “go on sale”. Compare vēndō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈweː.ne.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.ne.o]

vēneō (present infinitive vēnīre, perfect active vēniī or vēnīvī, supine vēnitum); irregular conjugation

1. to be sold

   Synonyms: vēndor, vēnundor, vēnumdor

   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, apud Diomedem Grammaticum, Artis Grammaticae libri III 368.25–26:

     ego illi venear

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   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa 577–578:

     nam heri in portum noctu navis venit. veniri hanc volo, / si potest; si non potest, iri hinc volo quantum potest.

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   • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 95.42:^[1]

     Mullum ingentis formae — quare autem non pondus adicio et aliquorum gulam inrito? quattuor pondo et selibram fuisse aiebant — Tiberius Caesar missum sibi cum in macellum deferri et veniri iussisset: “amici,” inquit, “omnia me fallunt, nisi istum mullum aut Apicius emerit aut P. Octavius.”

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This verb is used as the passive of vendo.

Irregular, but similar to the fourth conjugation. The third principal part vēniī occasionally appears as vēnīvī.

• “veneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “veneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• veneo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the free men are sold as slaves: libera corpora sub corona (hasta) veneunt (B. G. 3. 16. 4)
    
  • (ambiguous) to come to Rome: Romam venire, pervenire
    
  • (ambiguous) to go to meet some one: obviam venire alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to come into some one's hands: in alicuius manus venire, pervenire
    
  • (ambiguous) to come in sight: venire in conspectum alicuius
    
  • (ambiguous) to come to assist any one: auxilio alicui venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to gain a person's esteem, friendship: in gratiam alicuius venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to suffer reproof; to be criticised, blamed: in vituperationem, reprehensionem cadere, incidere, venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a subject for gossip: in sermonem hominum venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to become famous, distinguish oneself: gloriam colligere, in summam gloriam venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to become doubtful: in dubium venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a person forget a thing: aliquem in oblivionem alicuius rei adducere (pass. in oblivionem venire)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be contested, become the subject of debate: in controversiam vocari, adduci, venire (De Or. 2. 72. 291)
    
  • (ambiguous) to come before the tribunal of the critics: in existimantium arbitrium venire (Brut. 24. 92)
    
  • (ambiguous) to pass into a proverb: in proverbii consuetudinem or simply in proverbium venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to become frightened: in timorem venire, pervenire
    
  • (ambiguous) to conceive a hope: in spem venire, ingredi, adduci
    
  • (ambiguous) to be suspected by some one: in suspicionem alicui venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to incur a person's hatred: in odium, in invidiam venire alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to come into the possession of something: in possessionem alicuius rei venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to obtain an audience of some one: in congressum alicuius venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to become customary, the fashion: in consuetudinem or morem venire
    
  • (ambiguous) to appear in court: in iudicium venire, in iudicio adesse
    
  • (ambiguous) to come within javelin-range: ad teli coniectum venire (Liv. 2. 31)
    
  • (ambiguous) to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere
    
  • (ambiguous) to make one's submission to some one: in deditionem venire (without alicui)