venial

From Old French venial, borrowed from Late Latin veniālem (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːni.əl/

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venial (comparative more venial, superlative most venial)

1. Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     He did not say that he should favour such an attempt; But he did say that such an attempt would be venial.

   Synonyms: pardonable, excusable, forgivable

   Antonyms: unvenial, unforgivable

   1. (often, especially) Worthy of forgiveness because trifling (trivial).

      His venial youthful indiscretions.

2. (religion, of a sin) Not causing spiritual death.

   Antonym: mortal

Venial behavior (mildly wrong behavior) is not to be confused with venal behavior (bribery/corruption).

• Lavine, alevin, alvine, leavin', levain, valine, veinal, vineal

• veniel

Borrowed from Late Latin veniālem, from Latin venia.

venial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular veniale)

1. venial

• French: véniel
• → English: venial

From Late Latin veniālis (“pardonable”) (probably via Italian veniale), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

venial

1. venial

Borrowed from Late Latin veniālis, from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: ve‧ni‧al

venial m or f (plural veniais)

1. venial (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
2. venial (excusable; trifling)

• perdoável

• “venial” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from Late Latin veniālis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

• IPA^(key): /beˈnjal/ [beˈnjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ve‧nial

venial m or f (masculine and feminine plural veniales)

1. venial, petty

• “venial”, 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