venia

venia

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of venir
2. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of vendre

From Proto-Italic *wenjā, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). See also Latin Venus, veneror and English wish.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛ.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛː.ni.a]

venia f (genitive veniae); first declension

1. indulgence, kindness (i.e., lenient treatment)

   Synonyms: indulgentia, pietās, beneficium, cōmitās, benignitās, benevolentia

2. mercy, grace, favour
   • 165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra:

     Mi gnate, da veniam hanc mihi.

     My son, do me this favor.

3. pardon

   Synonyms: oblīviō, amnēstia, remissiō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.830:

     ‘quam’ dīxit ‘veniam vōs datis, ipsa negō.’

     ‘‘That pardon you give,’’ she said, ‘‘I myself refuse.’’
     (Virtuously steadfast, tragically fated to symbolize the foundational values of the Roman Republic, Lucretia responds to the absolutions of her father and her husband the morning after she was raped by a tyrant king's son.)

4. forgiveness
5. permission

   Synonyms: permissiō, concessiō, concessus

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.15:

     Datur petentibus venia

     the permission being granted to them who begging

First-declension noun.

• “venia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “venia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "venia", 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)
• venia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • allow me to say: bona (cum) venia tua dixerim
    
  • (ambiguous) to pardon some one: alicui veniam dare (alicuius rei)
    
  • (ambiguous) to pardon a person: veniam dare alicui
    

From Latin venia, whence English venial.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbenja/ [ˈbe.nja]
• Rhymes: -enja
• Syllabification: ve‧nia

venia f (plural venias)

1. (Latin America, military) salute
2. forgiveness
3. consent, permission, approval

• “venia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024